COMMUTERS, PEDESTRIANS STRANDED ON TEPA - MANKRANSO - KUMASI ROAD AS RIVER ABUU OVERFLOWS ITS BANKS

A huge number of commuters and pedestrians including farmers, teachers and students, were stranded on the Tepa - Mankranso - Kumasi road in the Ashanti region due to the overflow of River Abuu on Thursday, October 5, 2023.

River Abuu has a narrow bridge constructed in the 1990s by the then Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) regime under the late Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings.

Successive governments have tried their possible best to reconstruct the bridge in a modern status but all ended in a fiasco.

Thursdays are market days for residents of Tepa and its surroundings, and this Thursday October 5, 2023 was not an exception. 

Market women, passengers, teachers, students and drivers were stacked at both banks of the River, waiting for the flood to subdue.

According to some of the people, this is their first time of experiencing such situation, others also said it is an annual affair but not to that extent. 

A pedestrian, Agya Yaw Bonny, who narrated his ordeal to Journalists, disclosed that the last time an incident like this happened was in 1968, of which it lasted for some days saying "today's one is worse than that"

Foodstuffs and other valuable items are at a loss but no live casualty have been recorded.

The situation has created a temporal business for stronger men who carried the stranded passengers and students from one end of the river to the other at a fee.

Credit - Kusi Obuodum (Mpuntuo FM, Tepa).

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