Residents and local officials in Atimatim New Site, located in the Afigya Kwabre South District of the Ashanti Region, have issued an urgent appeal to regional authorities following poor-quality road construction that has blocked access for emergency vehicles and severed the community’s water supply.
The ongoing road project, intended to address long-standing infrastructure deficits in the community, has instead created severe safety and logistical hazards.
According to residents, newly constructed bridges and unlinked gutters have severed connections between inner residential roads and main thoroughfares, rendering several streets inaccessible.
The blockages have raised immediate safety concerns, as residents warn that emergency response agencies, including the Ghana National Fire Service and the National Ambulance Service, are currently unable to navigate the affected sections to reach households.
Compounding the crisis, construction machinery has damaged primary underground water pipelines, leaving multiple households without running water for weeks.
Assemblyman for the Atimatim New Site Electoral Area, Hon. Rev. Jeffrey Annor Acquah, confirmed the community’s grievances and called for immediate intervention from high-level government officials.
”Together with the District Chief Executive (DCE), I have summoned the contractor on several occasions to address these defects, but our efforts have yielded no satisfactory results,” Rev. Acquah stated.
He criticised the contractor’s lack of community engagement and failure to rectify the structural flaws.
Rev. Acquah has appealed to the Ashanti Regional Minister, the Department of Urban Roads, and local government officials to launch an immediate investigation.
He demanded that the contractor be directed to restore blocked access routes, integrate omitted inner roads and drainage gutters into the project layout, and repair the damaged water infrastructure.
Community members noted that they initially raised concerns directly with the contractor when bridge construction began, but their warnings were ignored.
While residents maintain that the road development project is a vital and welcome initiative, they emphasised that its benefits will remain compromised until safety, accessibility, and basic utility services are fully restored.
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