15/02/2026
This is not a general complaint from the third-largest constituency in Ghana per voter population. It is a direct cry from those of us who live, work, and struggle daily along the Amasaman–Ashalaja Road.
A road where shop owners breathe dust from dawn to dusk. Drivers navigate a long stretch of a dilapidated road that damage vehicles. As a result, commerical drivers show little or no interest in commuting on this stretch, leaving workers and schoolchildren to endure the punishment of waiting several minutes and sometimes hours for taxis and tro tro.
For years, we have endured a road that has steadily deteriorated into a hazard, an embarrassment, and a symbol of neglect. When the road fails, everything fails with it, and when it is dry, our homes, goods, and lungs get filled with thick dust. Either way, calamity befalls.
Our cars do not last. Our transport costs keep rising. Our businesses suffer. Mechanics see our vehicles more often than our families do.
Commercial drivers lose income from frequent breakdowns. Residents spend hard-earned money repairing suspensions, tyres, and steering systems — expenses created not by recklessness, but by a broken road.
In the last election, we voted out a government that had been in power for eight years without delivering meaningful improvement to this critical road.
We voted believing relief would come.
We voted believing development would follow.
But today, the reality remains unchanged for those of us who live along this stretch.
The Amasaman–Ashalaja Road is our access to work, school, church, mosque, and healthcare centres. It is our life.
To our Honourable MP Sedem Afenyo, the district and municipal and all other authorities responsible: please understand — this is not politics for us.
This is survival.
This is dignity.
This is our everyday reality.
We are not asking for temporary grading.
We are not asking for promises.
We are asking for the construction of a proper, lasting road.
We are patient people, but patience has limits. And come 2028, when we exercise the power of our thumb, the Amasaman–Ashalaja Road will definitely influence our choice of the next leaders — not out of anger, but out of necessity. Because leadership must respond to the lived experiences of the people.
Fix the Amasaman–Ashalaja Road.
Let our children travel safely.
Let our vehicles survive the journey.
Let our businesses breathe.
Let our community move forward.
Written in pain and anguish,
RG
Cc: John Dramani Mahama
Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang
