By: Evans Attah Akangla & Elijah Deku| ignewss| Abutia Avetakpo
Some residents of Avetakpo, a community in the Ho West District of the Volta Region, have voiced dismay at the lack of progress in the area since the town’s founding.
The community members claim that all attempts to attract development projects into the town through the District Assembly and the Member of Parliament for the area, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, have failed, leaving the community in desperate need of social amenities.
To seek answers from authorities regarding the situation, a town hall meeting was convened in Avetakpo, and other farming communities that share boundaries with Juapong in the North Tongu District and Mafi in the Central Tongu District expressed their dismay.
At a town hall meeting convened to bring the developmental issues to the attention of the authorities, residents of the farming community that share boundary with Juapong in the North Tongu District and Mafi in the Central Tongu District expressed their dismay at the
situation.
Additionally, a challenge was thrown to the MP, asking him to either respond to their calls or force them to relocate from the constituency or the district to their mother constituencies, North Tongu and Central Tongu, respectively when the limited registration period opens in May.
Jonas Tornye, the community youth leader, who addressed the gathering on behalf of the community leaders, said that the Ho West Assembly has completely neglected them and denied them in all aspects of development.
The chiefs and elders of Avetakpo lamented the absence of a clinic, potable drinking water, good roads, and power, saying they had been praying for at least those development projects to be completed on their land for a very long time.
The residents of Avetakpo observed that, despite the roughly seven communities in that area of the Ho West district having little development, politicians never spare them during election campaigns and, once they have the public’s support, neglect to carry out their development pledges.
During a tour of several areas of the community, the team observed some packed electricity poles intended to provide the community with electricity that had been abandoned for years.
On the other hand, a discovered ground water source that provides the community with drinking water, and the roads leading to the community are in extremely poor condition, besides several stalled community CHPS compound projects started by the MP
Source: www.ignewss.com|Ghana