Kpone protest against poor drainage construction

Kpone (Gt/Acc), Nov.03, GNA- The people of Kpone, near Tema have protested against the shoddy construction of a drainage system in the town, which gets flooded anytime it rains. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Friday, Mr Alex Annang, assemblyman for the Laaloi electoral area at Kpone said ever since the project started about four months ago it has caused a lot of havoc rather than a relief to them.

The assemblyman took the GNA around the project site and complained of its narrowness, size and wrong location. Anytime it rains, the drain gets choked and times as well as into homes.

Mr Annang said he drew the attention of one Mr Sampson Tetteh, Materials Engineer of the Department of Urban Roads at Tema, "but he told me that the project was not completed so we should exercise restraint for its completion before we complain".

The assemblyman said the people expressed their fears because they wanted the defect to be corrected before the completion of the project. When contacted Mr Tetteh said the 2.80- kilometre drain project estimated at 400 million cedis is still under construction and that the contractor had been told to expedite the work to avoid such problems. He said the contractor started work from upstream thus the problem, but on completion the problem would cease".

Mr Tetteh said the drain would not be covered because de-silting could pose a problem and that his department was now concentrating on the construction of open drains.