The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Maxwell Kofi Dwumah, has dropped hints of the construction of a flyover at Kejetia in Kumasi. The MCE, who announced this at a public forum held in Kumasi to commemorate his one year in office, said discussions to that effect are ongoing. He noted that the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has improved upon its performance and said the Assembly generated ?7 billion last year in revenue as against ?3.6 billion in 2000.
Dwumah said besides the precarious financial position of KMA, the sanitation situation was bad with a very poor lightening system and road network. He said the KMA has embarked upon an exercise to provide Lights at every nook and cranny of the metropolis whiles key roads at Bantama, Safe, Fante New Town, Ash Town, the industrial area roads and many more have been improved.
On the issue of sanitation, Dwumah said the situation is far better than when he assumed office, and assured the officers that the KMA has placed an order for drain cleaning equipment from the United States at the cost of $6,000. “To keep the city beautiful and clean in a move to maintain Kumasi as the Garden City of West Africa, the assembly’s bye-laws will be enforced to the letter,” he stressed.
The Metropolitan Chief Executive warned that all unauthorised structures in the metropolis would be removed, stressing that no one, irrespective of his political, ethnic, social and religious status would be spared in the demolition exercise. Dwumah announced that a task force has been formed to round up the numerous lunatics roaming the city. He said this line of action is the only option open to the KMA since the Kumasi metropolis does not have a psychiatric centre or hospital.
The KMA boss confirmed that the Kejetia lorry terminal would be opened on 2 June. He however, warned that the KMA has contracted a private company to run the project to ensure efficiency. Dwumah deplored the attitude of drivers, especially the commercial ones, who flout traffic rules with impunity, adding that the authorities would wage a war on indiscipline at the park.
