The Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Elikplim Akurugu, has gone on her knees in a heartfelt appeal to the Roads Minister, Governs Kwame Agbodza, to urgently fix the road leading to the Ga East Municipal Hospital.
In a viral video shared on TikTok, the NDC MP, Elikplim Akurugu, made a passionate appeal during her visit to the hospital, calling on the Road Minister and the contractor in charge of the roads leading to the Ga East Municipal Hospital to urgently fix the deplorable roads.
She further stressed the daily struggles that pregnant women, mothers, patients, and health workers endure on the road.
Speaking in the viral video, Elikplim Akurugu fell on her knees and pleaded saying, “We beg you. It can be anybody. It can be me in an emergency. It can be my sister here. Please, we beg you in the name of God”.
“When there is an emergency, before some patients get to the hospital, they are almost dead. The road is just deplorable. Please come to our aid,” she said.
She further added, “This is not political. It is about humanity. You never know who may need emergency care on this road one day”.
“It’s no longer a pothole; it’s now a manhole,” she remarked.
Some Ghanaians reacting to her plea stated, “As a member of parliament, not an ordinary person, instead of using the powers you have to talk to the assembly in your constituency, which also has a department of federal roads, there ahhh humm”, a Tiktoker added.
One more netizen wrote, “The Kwabenya road from Atomic down to Abuom junction is extremely bad to the Abuom top. The road is extremely bad”.
In related news, the Minister for Roads and Highways has also issued a two-month ultimatum to the contractor of the Wenchi–Sawla road, Maripoma Enterprise Limited.
According to the Roads Minister, Maripoma Enterprise Limited must deliver at least 20% progress on the Wenchi–Sawla Lot 7 road project or face contract termination.
Kwame Governs Agbodza made this known after inspecting the project and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the contractor’s performance.
The Roads Minister stated, “It’s either you do the 20%, or we terminate. You are not the first person we are telling,” Mr Agbodza said during the inspection.
“We went to the Western North. You didn’t even turn up on the site. You did not even turn up on the site when you took mobilisation on that one as well. In fact, you didn’t even have a site camp,” he said.
“You are a big company, but your bigness is not showing in the actual delivery of your projects,” he said. “We need to say this in the afternoon for everybody to hear. You must change the way you operate your things. At the moment, it’s not helpful to you and to the country.”
He further added, “You are sitting on the job. Well, we have said what we have to say. You have two months to do 20 per cent, or we are not even coming to talk to you. We’ll terminate, and you can go to court”.
“Go and see the condition in which the people are in that section of the road. Why? It’s not right,” he said.
“We should be celebrating policy like the Big Push. It was built around the Ghanaian contractor, and it was deliberate,” he added.
The Road Minister further lamented that the delays are exposing the government to public criticism on social media, saying, “Why should the President suffer abuse on this corridor because he’s giving you work, and you are not doing the work?” he said. “Do you see what they are saying on social media? TikTok? What wrong have we done?”
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@the1957news Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Elikplim Akurugu, goes on her knees in a heartfelt appeal to the Roads Minister and the contractor in charge of the roads leading to the Ga East Municipal Hospital to urgently fix the deplorable roads, stressing the daily struggles pregnant women, mothers, patients, and health workers endure. #the1957news ♬ original sound – The1957News