An eight month old pregnant woman has met her untimely death after falling into an abandoned gutter at Opeikuma a suburb of Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East Municipality.
Amina Issifu died later after she was rushed to the hospital.
The stretch where the woman met her untimely death is the Kasoa Opeikuma to Aprah stretch which has been under construction since 2019.
Sources say the deceased Amina Issifu fell into the gutter after she attempted jumping over it to her house.
Chief of Opeikuma Nana Opei Mensah II says this should be a wake up call to the authorities to fix the road to avoid any casualties.
According to him the issue of dust is killing them on the stretch since the road has been abandoned.
“As a leader of this community I am disappointed that the road has been abandoned by the government resulting in the death of an innocent fulani woman.The issue of dust on the stretch is also a big challenge and people on this stretch suffer a lot. We find it difficult washing our cloths as a result of the dusty nature of the road”Nana Opei Mensah told campaigneronline.com.
Meanwhile commercial and private drivers who use the stretch say they are disappointed since the road has been abandoned and lament the difficulties in using the road.
“We beg the government to make this road a priority. We struggle a lot as drivers since we find it difficult using the road. We have stopped loading from Opeikuma junction to Opeikuma town as a result of the road. We are also forced to visit the mechanic often which was not the case”Yaw Asante a commercial driver told Capaigneronline.Com
Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East Mavis Hawa Koomson expressed regret over the incidents and says plans are in place to award a new contract to another contractor and terminate that of the old contractor to ensure that the road is completed on time.