By Michael Kofi Kenetey
Residents of Apersua-Terpiorsi, a community near the new Apersua Community Day School in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region have made a passionate appeal to the government to as a matter of urgency rehabilitate the road leading to the community to boost economic activities.
This is because the current state of the road hinders the smooth carting of goods to market centres for economic growth. They appealed when our Eastern Regional Correspondent, Michael Kofi Kenetey visited the community to assess the situation.
Apersua-Terpiorsi is a farming community of over six hundred residents in the Yilo Krobo Municipality but due to the lack of social amenities, many of the residents have migrated from the community to resettle at Nkurakan and neighbouring communities. They grow crops like maize, cassava, plantain, banana, pineapple and garden egg among others.
The community is a few kilometres from the Apersua Water System, however, the community has no access to potable water, electricity, health facility and pliable road.
As a result of this, the community organized communal labour and constructed a road from the school junction to the community manually. The only source of drinking water in the community is a stream which is a kilometre walk from the community.
In an interview with GBC News, the Community Road Project Secretary, Kingsford Oheneba appealed to the government through the Municipal Chief Executive, Eric Tetteh to come to their aid to help expand the road and put gravels on it to enable vehicles to ply it.
The Community Leader of the Road Project, Andrews Tetteh Abaitey noted that when he first came to the community, there was no road leading to the community, hence he single-handedly took it upon himself to start constructing the road manually.
Few months later, some residents of the community decided to support his vision and offered their support to him to construct the road, however, the stage they have reached requires gravel to enable vehicles to ply the road.
The community members have pledged arable land to government and any interested local or foreign investor who is willing to invest by establishing a factory or company to eradicate post-harvest losses and curb the unemployment situation in the area.
