The Chief and people of Kpangkolee, a community in the Charingu Electoral Area, in the Wa Municipality, have expressed worry about the deplorable state of the road linking the community to Tabiesi where they access health care services.
They said the situation become worse during the raining season as the road becomes inaccessible anytime it rains.
Mr Dongyeng Agang Gandaakuu, the chief of the community expressed the worry at the community during a community durbar at the weekend.
According to him, some people die preventable deaths due to their inability to access the health facility on time owing to the bad state of the road.
Mr Gandaakuu narrated that they nearly lost a member of the community this year due to the bad road but for the intervention of God the person survived.
“This year someone fell sick and if not by the grace of God, the person would have died, all because of the road.
Madam Dongyeng Abena, the Women Leader at the community, appealed to the stakeholders, especially the Wa Municipal Chief Executive and the Wa Central Member of Parliament to come to their aid by putting the road in a good shape to help give meaning to their lives.
“During the raining season, how to even get to Tabiesi to mill corn to cook for our children is very difficult. If the DCE and the MP do not fix this road, then we will know that we are goats that they have caged here to be feeding on grasses”, she intimated.
According to her, pregnant women and children are the worse affected group of people as far as the poor road network is concerned since access to the maternal healthcare services is a privilege in that community.
On his part, the Chief of Mojong community in the area, Mr Abdul Razark Salifu, also added his voice to the calls on the stakeholders to turn human face to them by fixing their road.
“We are really suffering here. How to get to Kpangkolee is very difficult to talk of proceeding to Mojong or Piiri”, he bemoaned.