The residents along the Kukua, Akorabo and Amanhyia trunk road in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region have appealed to the Government to reshape their roads, which are badly damaged.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) after inspecting the road from Kukua through Akorabo to Amanhyia, Nana Samuel Asare, chief of Kukua, said the trunk road become impassable after rains.

Nana Asare stated that yearly appeals made to the Municipal Assembly fell on deaf ears, though the situation had brought untold economic hardship to the people.

He said due to the deep potholes, the undulating and slippery nature of portions of the road, commercial drivers had threatened to stop plying it.

According to him, the Assembly was aware that foodstuffs abounded in the area, therefore, should drivers stop plying the route, food items could go rotten thereby depriving the people, mostly farmers, of their economic livelihoods.

However, the bad roads between Suhum and Adawso in the Akwapim North Municipality, he said, were being worked on.

Nana Asare noted that in the Suhum Municipality, the major food marketing centres were Anum Apapam, Akorabo, Amanase and Suhum, which supplied food crops to the urban centres, but the lack of rehabilitation works could spell the ‘economic doom’ of the people.