Inhabitants of Pienyina appeal for feeder roads

Nkoranza, Dec 17, GNA - Residents of Pienyina, a farming community in Nkoranza District of Brong Ahafo, have appealed to the Department of Feeder Roads to rehabilitate the 12-kilometre road from the area to Bredi Number One on the Nkoranza-Ejura road.

They cultivate yams, maize, rice, millet and groundnuts on a large scale but lack of transport has denied them of getting better prices for their produce.

Mr. Emmanuel Kwadwo Dandwa, secretary of the unit committee, told Ghana News Agency that quantities of foodstuffs are locked up in the area as they could not be transported to the marketing centres. Some traders from Ejura in the Ashanti Region, at irregular times, manage to come to the area on tractors to buy the foodstuffs at ridiculously low prices.

He said the inability of the farmers to convey their produce to the market at Nkoranza is making the Nkoranza District Assembly to lose substantial revenue to the Ejura-Sekodumase Assembly as traders from the area came to Pienyina to buy the foodstuffs and send them there. Mr Dandwa said the people lack a number of social amenities, including good drinking water "and they are at risk of contracting waterborne diseases as the only stream that serves them lies within the Volta basin".

The people travel for a distance of 13 kilometres to Dromankese in the district or cover 18 kilometres to Ejura for medical care.