Dwease, a farming community in the Asante-Akim Central Municipality, has appealed to the government to step in to save an abandoned police station project started a decade ago.

The structure has been roofed but without plumbing and electrical works and had been overgrown with weeds.

The project, a community self-help initiative, is meant to provide decent office accommodation for the police in the town and end the situation where they operate from a rented building.

The people, however, say their finances are now overstretched and they simply cannot finish it on their own.

Mr Stephen Yeboah, the assembly member, told a team of reporters of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that they have been having sleepless nights over the present disturbing state of the project.

They had over the past 10 years invested so much energy and resources into it and dreaded seeing all that go down the drain.

The GNA had visited the community under the STAR-Ghana sponsored multi donor pooled media auditing and tracking of development projects, an initiative launched to put a spotlight on how government funds are transforming the lives of people, particularly those in the rural communities.

The goal was to aid the promotion of transparency and accountability in local governance.

Mr Yeboah said things were really hard and that "they were at the dead end", financially, and would require support from the state to relocate the police to a more convenient place.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) James Nyadezo, the Divisional Crime Officer, confirmed that they are aware of the project and eager to see it completed.

He noted that the present place housing the police station was not good but said they were helpless and not in the position to finish the stalled project.