Ayensuako community appeals for footbridge over Ayensu River

Ayensuako (C/R), May 27, GNA - The Ayensuako community in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District of the Central Region, mainly cocoa and food crop farmers, have renewed their call on the government to provide a footbridge across the River Ayensu to facilitate their agricultural activities.

Nai Kofi Antwi V, chief of the community, who is also a member of the Awutu Traditional Council, made the call at an emergency meeting at Ayensuako at the weekend.

Construction of the footbridge would also curtail once and for all the problem of school children living at the other bank of the River when the stream overflows its banks, especially during the rainy season. Nai Antwi expressed regret that several petitions made to the relevant institutions in the past had yielded no positive results. He said besides hampering orderly agricultural work during peak farming seasons annually, the problem also affected the educational activities of schools in the surrounding farming villages in the Ayensuagya area.

Nai Antwi expressed the hope that the government would take a serious view of their petition and mobilize all available resources to build the footbridge before the main rainy season this year.