Torompan residents to demonstrate over poor roads

The chiefs and people of Torompan and surrounding communities, a cocoa growing area near Samaboi have planned a one week demonstration to demand the rehabilitation of the poor roads in the area.

According to the people, because of the poor nature of the roads vehicles have stopped coming to the communities and as result about 10,000 bags of cocoa beans are locked up in cocoa sheds in the area.

The people have therefore decided not to participate in the 2016 elections if the roads in the area are not rehabilitated.

Briefing the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Nana Krobo, chief of the community, said the late President John Atta Mills promised to rehabilitate the roads in the area five years ago but up till now, the road linking the cocoa farms in Tolompan, Mumuni and communities in the area to Samaboi, about 65 kilometers away are still unmotorable.