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Most residents in the North Atomic community are suffering from severe dust pollution, with some diagnosed to be suffering from upper respiratory infections as a result of the laterite spread on their roads.

The movement of vehicles on the untarred road generates dust, which has been affecting the health of residents in the community for more than a decade now.

Some school children in the schools along this road have been coughing badly and bleeding from the nose while others have been diagnosed of serious worm infections due to the intake of polluted water.

School operators are losing their pupils to other schools in other locations because of the dust pollution.

Trading and businesses are also collapsing by the day as a result of the dust pollution.

Clothes and other household materials have been stained and turned brown in colour following the spread of laterite on the road.

A concerned resident, Mrs Akosua Afriyie Larbi, speaking to The Finder on the issue, mentioned that in August last year, a man by name Ofori, who claimed to be the road contractor, was seen dumping and spreading the red soil, and since then he has defiantly refused to water the road to minimise the dust.

She stated that numerous calls and complaints afterwards to the road contractor, the Ga-East Municipal Chief Executive, Mr John Kwao Sackey, and the Greater Accra Regional Urban Roads engineer have all fallen on deaf ears.

Mrs Larbi, on behalf of the residents, is, therefore,, humbly calling on His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama and all authorities in charge to come to their aid by instructing the road contractor to do the honourable thing.

They also called on the authorities to beef up the security in the community following recent incidents of robbers.

She explained that these unscrupulous characters operate at odd hours, stealing from residents – sometimes at gun point, as well as raping and torturing them at certain times of their operations.

In conclusion, she noted that the residents are part of Ghana’s taxpayers and contribute to the national cake, and should, therefore, receive their fair share of the cake.

The North Atomic community is a new settler community situated in between Obaahemaa Clinic/Ashongman Community Hospital and Osamanpa estate near Atomic Hills estate in the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency of the Ga-East Municipal Assembly.

The proposed ECOWAS motorway, from ACP Pokuase-Kwabenya-Agbogba-Madina Ritz junction, passes through this community.