[ 2017-03-02 ]

Kwame Nkrumah interchange was a shoddy project

Circle flyover shoddy - AMA official
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.”

Source - classfmonline.com

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