Kpeshie Bridge repaired
Gilbert Boyefio
06/02/2007
Barely a week after The Statesman published a story on the deplorable state of part of the Kpeshie Bridge, which leads to the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Centre, repair works on the bridge have begun.
Interestingly enough, the Metro Urban Road's claim that it was bogged down with other pressing and more urgent issues appears to have been shoved aside.
According to I B Amarh, a Maintenance Engineer of the Accra Metropolitan Urban Roads Department, the work started last Monday and is expected to be completed in the next few days. He did not disclose the exact amount involved in the repairs.
He attributed the cause of the earlier impasse between his office and that of the Department of Urban Roads, over whose responsibility it was to repair the damage to the concrete rails around the bridge to a "little break in communication?.
He explained that the Department of Urban Roads was right in its assertion that the construction company which renovated the Bridge has finished its work, and the bridge has been handed over to the AMA.
According to him, during the handing over ceremony, their representative from the Metro Urban Roads Office who was supposed to attend the handing over ceremony failed to do so, and that is why they were not aware that it had been handed over.
?We made the assumption that the work is ongoing and the contractor is still in charge,? said Theophilus Quaye, a Traffic Engineer also from Metro Urban Roads, ?But we have realised our mistake, and it will never happen again,? he assured this paper.
They said the street lights on that stretch of road which have been out of use for almost ten years is not their responsibility but that of the Electricity Company of Ghana.
06/02/2007
Barely a week after The Statesman published a story on the deplorable state of part of the Kpeshie Bridge, which leads to the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Centre, repair works on the bridge have begun.
Interestingly enough, the Metro Urban Road's claim that it was bogged down with other pressing and more urgent issues appears to have been shoved aside.
According to I B Amarh, a Maintenance Engineer of the Accra Metropolitan Urban Roads Department, the work started last Monday and is expected to be completed in the next few days. He did not disclose the exact amount involved in the repairs.
He attributed the cause of the earlier impasse between his office and that of the Department of Urban Roads, over whose responsibility it was to repair the damage to the concrete rails around the bridge to a "little break in communication?.
He explained that the Department of Urban Roads was right in its assertion that the construction company which renovated the Bridge has finished its work, and the bridge has been handed over to the AMA.
According to him, during the handing over ceremony, their representative from the Metro Urban Roads Office who was supposed to attend the handing over ceremony failed to do so, and that is why they were not aware that it had been handed over.
?We made the assumption that the work is ongoing and the contractor is still in charge,? said Theophilus Quaye, a Traffic Engineer also from Metro Urban Roads, ?But we have realised our mistake, and it will never happen again,? he assured this paper.
They said the street lights on that stretch of road which have been out of use for almost ten years is not their responsibility but that of the Electricity Company of Ghana.
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