Tetegu grateful for traffic light

The chiefs and people of three communities have commended the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) for installing a traffic light at Tetegu Junction,  which has drastically reduced road accidents at the intersection.

Hitherto, no day passes without accidents being recorded, some of them fatal.

This compelled the three communities—Tetegu, Oblogo and MacCarthy Hill—to send a request to the Ministry of Roads and Highways, through the GHA, to take remedial measures to stop the carnage at the junction.

Mr Edmund Cudjoe, the Assembly member for Oblogo -Tetegu in the Ga South Municipality, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic, also commended the chief executive of the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA), the director of road safety and police commander at Weija for their concern and swift response to the request for safety measures to be put in place to protect lives and property at Tetegu Junction.

He also commended Nii Kojo Sammy Danso, Chief of South West MacCarthy Hill; the Tetegu stool and the Ga South Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Jerry Akwei Thompson, for spearheading the installation of the traffic lights.

Mr Cudjoe said the traffic lights had helped to check the rampant road accidents, adding that since the installation more than two months ago, no fatal accident had been recorded.

He said that was not the first time the GHA had assisted residents in the Ga South Municipality, citing the construction of a steel bridge at Tetegu and the gravelling of the road from the Tetegu Junction to Tetegu. The drainage system in the area is also in good shape.