Residents bemoan high tension pole sitting in the middle of the road at Ga Odumase

A high tension pole, comfortably situated in the middle of a road at Ga Odumase in the Greater Accra region has become a major source of concern for residents in the area.

The intellectual discretion or the lack thereof of the electricity company who planted the pole in the middle of the road will not be the subject matter of this article.

Instead, the woes and grievance as has been registered by residents whose safety was obviously not taken to heart, will prevail in this content.

According to a resident, whose name is given as Juliet Boakye Addae, the pole was there before the untarred road was conveniently constructed around the pole, allowing only enough space to move around awkwardly.

In fact, the pole was originally left bare without anything to secure it, according to the concerned resident. “We had to complain for a very long time before the pole was even wrapped with these plastics,” she lamented in Twi.

“Later, they brought some four metals to place around it – metals that were eventually knocked off by the moving cars,” she added.

The poor visibility on the road has made it impossible to see the pole, until drivers are only a few metres away from it, causing them to halt abruptly when they are at a dangerous distance from the pole.

The residents’ only consolation was that, no car had yet crashed into the pole – the same development that they were certain had prevented any authority to deem it necessary to move the pole.

“It’s a high tension pole, no driver could possibly survive an accident if they crashed into it,” Juliet continued.

She appealed to the government to hearken their plea and uproot the pole before it caused irreparable damage, inevitably.