GHANA HIGHWAYS AUTHORITY GIVEN ULTIMATUM

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The chiefs and people of Ninting in the Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti region have given the Ghana Highway Authority up to the close of this week to construct speed rumps in the town. 

Failure to comply with this will compel the citizens to go ahead to construct the rumps as a measure against the incessant pedestrian knock downs by vehicles in the town.

 An opinion Leader, Nana Adu Asare, told Ashanti Today on behalf of the aggrieved people, noted that the town can no longer tolerate the apathy of the Ghana Highways Authority to help compel speeding vehicles to reduce their speed whenever they get to the town to save lives. 

Ninting is the town located right after the famous Mampong Scarp and it is when drivers reach the town that they are able to see their way clear and therefore begin to speed without regard for other road users like pedestrians. 

 According to Nana Adu Asare, who is also the Head of the Royal Family of Ninting, about 46 residents of the town have been killed by speeding vehicles in the last few years with many others maimed permanently when they were knocked down adding that but for divine intervention, a group of eight primary school pupils of the town would have also been ran over by another speeding vehicle early this week when they were trying to cross the road from school. 

He said after several notifications to the Asante Mampong Municipal office of the Ghana Highway Authority to construct speed rumps at the two entry points and the middle portion of the township, they eventually showed interest and gave an estimated cost of the construction to the opinion Leaders to be borne by the town.

 Nana Adu Asare stressed that even though the amount requested has been raised, efforts to get the officials afterwards to assist have not yielded the expected results whiles people’s lives are still at risk of vehicular knock downs. 

He expressed gratitude to citizens of the town especially the former President of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Kwabena Opoku Adusei and one Madam Cecilia Oteng Amoako for their commitment towards the socio-economic development of the town.    


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