President of the Millar Institute for Transdisciplinary and Development Studies, Prof. David Millar, has recounted what he described as a “horrible and humiliating” experience on the Navrongo–Tumu road , a stretch he says is supposed to link two of Ghana’s oldest regions.
Narrating his ordeal in an exclusive interview with Apexnewsgh, Prof. Millar said a journey that should have taken him a few hours turned into an exhausting eight-hour struggle when he got stuck at Navaribie, a community along the road.
“I found myself stranded in what looked like a big river, but this was no river, it was supposed to be a motorable road,” he lamented.
According to him, the dire situation has forced the local youth to turn the misfortune of road users into an income stream by charging stranded travelers to help them cross.
“The young men had created a job out of the bad road. I only managed to get across after offering them GHC 20,” Prof. Millar revealed.
But the experience left him deeply frustrated, especially since the road was reportedly captured under the government’s flagship Big Push Policy.
“One keeps hearing that the road is under the Big Push. But I saw no sign of any ‘Big Push’ there,” he bitterly remarked.
Prof. Millar emphasized that roads linking important regions like Upper East and Upper West should not be allowed to deteriorate into what he described as “death traps masquerading as highways.”
Source: Apexnewsgh.com
