The residents have also appealed to the government to help fix the road network in the area.
They indicated that due to the bad nature of the roads, especially the roads linking Kpone to other towns such as Tema, Prampram, Oyibi and Katamanso, residents found it difficult to travel.
The residents expressed these concerns at a town hall meeting organised by the Kpone Katamanso Municipal Assembly last Thursday. The meeting was held by the assembly to interact with residents on various topics of interest and address issues concerning the progress, growth and development of the area.
A resident of Kpone Shanghai, Benjamin Tetteh, told the Daily Graphic that some community members had to go several days without water supply, forcing them to resort to private tanker services to purchase water for their daily use at a high cost.
Another resident, Ishmael Mensah, said the deplorable nature of the roads in the municipality was affecting their movement to and out of town.
“Kpone is not too far from Tema but because of the bad nature of the road, we use a longer period to reach Tema,” he said and appealed to the government to fast-track the construction works on the seven-kilometre Kpone-Tema Oil Refinery and the Kpone Township to Kpone Barrier roads.”
Intervention
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Kpone Katamanso, Samuel Okoe Amanquah, said he inherited the water crisis in 2017, adding that he had approached Ghana Water Limited (GWL), which came to Kpone to do a feasibility study that showed that a huge tank must be erected to store water for redistribution to the community.
He said after a second study, GWL realised that that plan would not help; rather they indicated it would be part of the company’s long-term measure in improving water supply to industries in Tema and Kpone.
The project, which is currently at the feasibility stage will draw water from the Volta River around Aveyime through to the Dawa areas into the industries in Tema and Kpone to address the ever-increasing demand for water by residents and industries.
He said once this project came to full fruition, water supply to the area would be improved.
On roads, the MCE said although the assembly had not done much, a few projects were ongoing.
“We have the Kpone to Tema Oil Refinery road, which is ongoing. It is a 7.2-kilometre dualised road. A portion is going to be asphalted and another portion would be concrete works,” he said.
On the Kpone Township to Kpone Barrier road, Mr Amanquah said the project had been awarded to a contractor, adding that the road would have two bridges across the Lalue River to connect Kpone to Prampram.
He said works on the main Kpone Barrier to Central University road on the Tema to Aflao Highway had stalled, but he was optimistic that the government would give the green light for work to resume.
“We are hoping that when all these roads are done, the traffic situation on the main Tema to Aflao Highway will be a thing of the past,” he said.
Projects
Mr Amanquah said other projects initiated were the construction of a 40-bed capacity hospital in Kpone, a dormitory block at the Kpone Community Day SHS to convert the facility into a boarding school, classroom blocks for the Hanaa, Kpone Bawaleshie, Okushibi, Nii Oglie, Mlitsakpo and Nanaman communities and the procurement of furniture for schools in the district.
The MCE said the assembly had constructed a CHPS compound at the Mlitsakpo community and had also commenced work on a new market at Kpone.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Greater Accra Regional Chairman, Divine Otoo Agorhom, touched on the achievements of the NPP since it assumed office in 2017, including free SHS, the one district one factory, one constituency one ambulance, mobile money interoperability, digitisation and enhanced healthcare system, among others.
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