Ashaiman (Greater Accra) 16 June '99

The people of Ashaiman have expressed concern at the frequency at which roads are unilaterally blocked to inconvenience the public.

Apart from the main roads and the night market streets, almost all the link roads are blocked at weekends and sometimes even on week days for out-doorings without any public notice.

Mr Anthony Yeboah, a taxi driver on Tuesday called at the GNA to complain that the link road between the Methodist School and the Kaketo Junction was blocked by a benevolent society for a meeting.

He reported that sometimes, workers who are late for work have to engage in verbal wars with organisers of social gatherings who use benches to display "no way" inscriptions to prevent the public from using the roads.

Mr Isaac Kwame Antwi, Tema Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), commenting on the complaints, advised the public to refrain from such practices since they infringe on the rights of others.