MP happy over work on Asamankese drainage

The Anyinasu stream cuts across Asamankese, the constituency headquarters, which also doubles as the capital of the West Akyem Municipality and causes severe floods in the town, especially the Zongo community where most of the people had to be relocated during each raniy season.

Such an unfortunate situation compelled the MP to appeal to the sector ministry for help.

Miss Klenam made the commendation when she toured the area at the weekend to acquaint herself with progress on the project.

The MP, who was happy about the positive response, said perennial flooding of the town by the Anyinasu Stream had for years been the main problem confronting the people, especially those within the Zongo community, which she said used to be inundated with the attendant loss of lives and property.

Miss Klenam, who showed journalists a pipeline located under a culvert in the centre of the town, which had blocked the flow of sediments, leading to severe floods, asked the Ghana Water Company to relocate it.

Giving the background to the project, she said although the NPP administration started it at the Zongo, it was stopped after the party lost power in 2009.

Miss Klenam stated that to alleviate the plight of the people, she had to be persistently be on the sector ministry and was happy that it had responded favourably by continuing the project and expressed the hope that it would be completed before the rains set in.

“Our main problem is the annual flooding of the Anyinasu Stream which has been destroying houses, especially at the Zongo and I hope this will come to an end at the completion of the project,” Miss Klenam stated.

With regards to the rehabilitation of the town’s streets and the Asamankese-Suhum road, the MP expressed disgust at the slow rate of construction work and called on the assembly and the sector ministry to ensure their early completion.

The MP, who also visited a waterlogged portion on the Asamankese-Boadua road at the outskirts of Osenase, asked the sector ministry to, as a matter of urgency, construct a storm bridge at the spot.

The Chief of Asamankese Zongo, Muhamed Bala, was grateful to Miss Klenam for championing their cause, adding “your intervention will bring to an end our suffering”.

Picture: Miss Gifty Klenam, MP for Lower West Akyem.

Story by A. Kofoya-Tetteh