A private estate developer has destroyed a 5 inch asphalted road at the Ahodwo-Danyame area in the Ashanti Region to erect a wall around his property.
According to reports, the wall has now blocked access to the Faith Experimental School and the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) in the opposite direction. The road which linked to the Ahodwo highway now being blocked sees road users being disadvantaged.
“Yesterday we heard someone was building a house at Danyame in the RCC area close to the Urban Roads and Electoral Commission (EC) offices. The building is less than 5 feet from the RCC and the area as part of the gov’t bid to construct good roads has seen a major road infrastructure, a 5 inch thick asphalted road. This newly constructed road has however been destroyed by the private developer who claimed the road run through his land. After destroying portions of the road he has built a wall in the middle of the road blocking access to road users,” HappyFM/e.TV Ghana’s Ashanti Regional Correspondent, Isaac Asiedu disclosed.
Adding salt to injury the developer also dug out portions close to the walls of the RCC and used that sand as filling for his construction.
Reporting the incident on the Happy Morning Show with Samuel Eshun, Isaac Asiedu doing his due diligence sought clarity from the Director of Urban Roads in the area and was told the road was a temporal one. “I was told the road was a temporal and not a permanent one. The new Director of Urban Roads told me the road was constructed during his predecessor’s tenure and when they looked through their documents they realized the land indeed belong to the developer. The Regional Minister also said the same thing and added they can’t take the developer on.”
Isaac Asiedu who was really concerned about the development proceeded to accuse local authorities of causing financial loss to the state. To him, the road was heavily asphalted and did not seem like a temporal road. “So if it was temporal why waste so much money to construct it? The funds for the road were even provided by the central government and now the road has been destroyed and replaced with a wall.”
Rumors say the developer is working on the land on behalf of former President John Agyekum Kufuor and that is why no punitive measures have been meted against him.
