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| One of the sign posts at the Mats3 Baah junction, Kpongunor |
STREET NAMING IN
LOWER MANYA KROBO ENTERS PILOT PHASE
The pilot phase of the
street naming exercise in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality has taken off as
earlier indicated by the MCE, Hon. Frederick Acolatse when the leadership of
Kloma Gbi called on him in his office on October 3, 2014.
The mounting of signage is
presently ongoing in parts of town including areas like Kpongunor, Abanse, and
Agromanya. Kloma Gbi has spotted some of the signage and can confirm that the
exercise is in full flight.
You
will recall that the President, John Dramani Mahama, directed the 170
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to name all the streets
and address every property under their jurisdictions within 18 months. The
ultimatum elapsed on September 30, 2014 but the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality
missed out on the PRESIDENTIAL DEADLINE because for nearly 4 years, (among
other issues) the municipality was without ASSEMBLY MEMBERS (and the various
sub-committees) to take and implement the needed decisions to bring the
exercise to fruition. That is most unfortunate, you will say, but this is
JUST one of the MANY ways the municipality (and the people) suffered because of
the NEEDLESS BOUNDARY DISPUTE OVER AKUSE (NATRIKU) and the chain of costly legal
battles that characterised it.
We
find this action on the part of the new MCE swift (taking cognizance of the
fact that he assumed office just a few months ago) and wish to commend him and
his team who are working to speed up the project.
We
want to advice however that wider consultation is done to inform the choice of
names for the various streets. We have seen a few names that are clearly not
FITTING for the roads they have been assigned to because (among others) those
streets long had names that have become popular over the years and on the lips
of the indigene.
Putting
our ears on the ground, sentiment even indicate that the decision to change
those OLD (and famous) names was not a popular one for which reason the people
may not even want to use the new names (even if they don’t aggressively kick
against it in the open).
The
end result is that the old names may still override the new ones and will
literally defeat the essence of the exercise, making the signage WHITE
ELEPHANTS.
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| A signage at the Madaam junction |
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| A street names after Matse Baah of Dorm Division |
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| This sign post is positioned at the Madaam junction |
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