{"id":358481,"date":"2017-10-03T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=358481"},"modified":"2017-10-03T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:00:57","slug":"teshie-residents-bemoan-impassable-roads-no-street-lights-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=358481","title":{"rendered":"Teshie residents bemoan ‘impassable’ roads, no street lights [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents of Lascala at Teshie in Accra, are up in arms over the failure of the government to fix their pothole-riddled roads.<\/p>\n

According to them, an earlier report by Citi News<\/strong> had pushed the government to begin work on the road, which was abandoned weeks later.<\/p>\n

Caleb Kudah, who filed the first report three months ago, returned to the are to report on the progress that had been made.<\/p>\n

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He however observed that, the road that runs through the community had deteriorated, leaving drivers frustrated particularly when it rains.<\/p>\n

One resident, who preferred to remain anonymous, accompanied Caleb Kudah on a drive through the\u00a0community,\u00a0and expressed her frustration with the daily hustle the residents have to endure when they ply the route.<\/p>\n

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“You need to be extra vigilant. It\u2019s very strenuous. Look at all these manholes we are falling into, if it were a rainy day and they were full, how would we see and avoid them,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The day [Citi FM<\/strong>] aired the report, I saw trucks full of gravel. The next morning they had leveled the road. I thought that was the end to our troubles but it was only a camouflage.”<\/p>\n

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Driving through the pitch black streets, Caleb Kudah inquired about streetlights, and was immediately told “there is nothing like that over here.”<\/p>\n

“The whole place is dark, you can imagine what happens when it rains. It\u2019s terrible, you can\u2019t tell where you are going and what you are passing through,” she added.<\/p>\n

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She\u00a0added that, the residents had to contend with a swarm of mosquitoes whenever it rained, due to the presence of uncovered drains that had been left behind by the contractors.<\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t describe this as a road because they have stopped the work, water collects in the drains, and spills onto the road when it rains. This breeds mosquitoes.”<\/p>\n

She also likened the situation in the area to the “Akosombo Dam”, and\u00a0stated that she always left her car at work whenever there was a downpour as she could not risk driving it through the large puddles on the road.<\/p>\n

“Plying this road daily with my car \u2013 a Kia Picanto \u2013 is dangerous. Sometimes, when it rains, I don\u2019t try coming home with a car. I park my car in the office and take a trotro back home.”<\/p>\n

Listen to Caleb Kudah’s full report below:<\/p>\n