YAMFO DRIVERS WORRIED OVER DAMAGE BRIDGE

Story: Michael Sarpong Mfum, Yamfo

Drivers at Yamfo in the Tano North District of the Brong Ahafo Region are worried they will be out of job in this rainy this is because of the inability of the Tano North District Assembly to reconstruct the damage bridge that links the Community and other towns in the Brong Ahafo Region.

According to the drivers, several appeals made to the Tano North District Assembly to reconstruct the broken bridge have not yielded any results. The drivers say it has become extremely difficult to cart foodstuff to market centres in the district.

Yaw Osei, a driver who plies Yamfo –Sunyani says it has become difficult to cross the broken bridge the links Yamfo and Susuaso during the rainy season.

“We the drivers in Yamfo here are suffering because the broken bridge is affecting our job. We have made several appeals to the district Assembly but they have not done anything about it. We are part of Ghana so the country must come to our aid or they should not come here to do any campaign as the elections approach,” he disclosed.

An Independent Parliamentary in the Tano North Constituency, Albert Nda Hayford Biney says the broken bridge is affecting farmers from carting foodstuff to market centres in the district.

“Most of the residents in the district are farmers and has become very difficult for them to cart their foodstuff to the market centres in the district because of the bad road network. Most of the farmers have to leave their foodstuff because of the exorbitant lorry fares from drivers who ply the roads. When approaching Yamfo from Susuaso the only bridge linking these two communities is broken and it’s difficult to travel on it because the rains have washed all the sand leaving the cement culvert,” Mr. Biney observed.