Tension is building up at Danprani, a vicinity of Buokrom Estate in Kumasi, following a private developer’s decision to destroy a 7-inch asphalt road to construct a fence wall to protect his land in the area.
Our news team sources indicate the private developer has secured permit to construct the fence wall including the portion of the road which is part of his lease.
When completed the wall will block Andy Grace school, DVLA, Vehicle Inspection and Technical Organization [VITO] office, and more than 900 residents will be blocked.
The road links Buokrom Estate to Duase and other communities and will all be blocked if the wall is completed and will subsequently disadvantaged the road users.
The road has been used by the residents for years which has become a shock to them.
After destroying portions of the road, the developer has started laying his blocks to construct the wall and will block access to the road users.
Community members have threatened to pull down any structure that the developer will put on the only alternative route that compliments the main Buokrom – Duaso road when there is traffic jam in the area.
The developer has started laying blocks to block the road.
The Assemblyman of the area, Kwame Agyemang, expressed his disappointment about the development.
“Concern of the community members is that we have applied the route for sometime now and this is coming as a shock. Two months ago a gettleman came around with a document claiming that the road fall within his land. I have informed the appropriate quarters to do something about the situation we find ourselves now,” he stated.
Some businesses operating in the area also expressed shock about the development.
Our news team sought clarity from the Physical Planning Department of the KMA, and was told the road was a temporal one.
The Director of the Physical Planning Department, Benjamin Agyenim Boateng, said the road was constructed by a construction firm in the 1980s to use it to carry their goods to the site.
According to him, when he looked through documents they realized that the land indeed belongs to the developer and they cannot take him on.
“The developer cannot be stopped from continuing his project but they can pull down structures on area where they do not have permit,” he said. .
By Benjamin Aidoo|AkomaFM|Onuaonline.com
