Kintampo (B/A), May 30, GNA - Contract for the tarring of the roads

within the Kintampo township in the Brong-Ahafo region have been terminated with immediate effect.

The Ministry of Roads and Transportation and the Ghana Highway Authority have re-awarded the contract to a Tema based construction firm, Adom construction limited at a cost of GH¢ 1,000,000. Mr. Awudulai Razak, Kintampo north Municipal Chief Executive disclosed this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Kintampo. He said the termination of the contract followed an undue delay by the former contractor, Disbe Venutres, a Sunyani based company, adding that, the contract had now been extended to include all the major roads in the municipality.

Investigations by the GNA indicated that roads in the municipality were in deplorable condition as a result of neglect by previous governments. Mr. Kwabena Asamoah, a retired teacher of the Kwabia L/A primary school who had lived in Kintampo for the past 57 years told GNA that roads in the township were constructed in the early 1970s and that, since then, there had not be rehabilitation.

"It is only the ventral road linking Techiman to Tamale that has been rehabilitated in 1999", he added.

Some residents living in Mo-line, Sawaba, Sunkwa and Nwase within the municipality said they were fed up with promises from politicians during elecioneering campaign on the tarring of the roads in the township saying, "this time round, no roads no vote".