The contractors who worked on the Kwame Nkrumah interchange did a shoddy work, Moses Abor, Head of the Accra Metropolitan Authority Task Force at the facility, has said.
According to him, instead of helping to reduce the floods that often result when it rains, the edifice, given the way it was constructed, had aggravated the situation, posing more danger to commuters and traders.
The flyover, constructed by the John Mahama administration, was in the news on Wednesday, 1 March when a trailer loaded with sugar was involved in an accident on its Ring Road to Kaneshie stretch.
The freight on the trailer fell on the railing of the flyover while its head dropped onto the ground, destroying some vehicles in the process.
An eyewitness who reported the accident to Emefa Apawu on Class91.3FM’s 505 programme said: “The situation has caused a serious traffic on the road. The head of the trailer dropped to the ground while the container was left hanging on the overhead.”
Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra 100.5FM on Thursday, 2 March, Mr Abor said among other things: “It was a shoddy work they did on the interchange and I believe that this new government will have a second look at the entire project to fix the defects on the edifice. Today as we speak you cannot conduct business at Circle when it rains. The situation has been so for years, however the flyover has worsened matters.”
“Look at the huge amount the government invested in the Circle interchange, but today when it rains we are not safe. I thought the thinking that went into the construction of the Mallam interchange, which is one of the best interchanges in West Africa if not Africa, should have gone into the construction of the Circle flyover.”
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Never you call a spade a shovel. How can you relate someone's recklessness to shoddy work. Whatever happened that day was not caused by the flyover but by the recklessness of that driver. Instead of looking at issues the right way, you judge from the wrong way. Even if funds was embezzled in constructing the flyover, it has got nothing to do with this. Fellow Ghanaians, let's be real for once. Politics in such issues will not help us at all.
This AMA guy is a disgrace to himself and the AMA. Had they done their work properly together with the other relevant bodies we wouldn't be having this discussion. The Interchange was NOT planned to address flooding but to ease traffic congestion. As for the moron who decided to drive a truck up the interchange he needs flogging with a wire soaked in kerosene. How can this AMA man relate flooding and the interchange. Accra has a serious drainage problem. Politcising this is unnecessary.
who ever wrote dis piece you are not far from being nation wrecker how can u blame this accident on shady work ahhh imagine a trailer, that is supposed to use the ground road decide to use the flyover and it not as if the road collapsed but the trailer that turned, so what does that got to do with shady work ahh. shame, comfusionist.
this ***barred word*** man should shout up. what has the accident got to do with the nature of the work done there. where has been since untill today. He is doing politics looking for attention of the president.
Hmmmmm We said it oooooooo!! NDC, Why, why, Why?