Commercial drivers at Kpone Barrier and its environs in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have suspended their sit-down strike today.

The suspension follows an assurance from the Kpone Katamanso Municipal Assembly to address their deplorable roads.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Samuel Okoe Amankwa, has promised the drivers that he will ensure the roads are fixed by the end of this week.

 “So we have done reshaping and gravelling at that place four times already within this year but when it rains the rain washes everything away so we’re trying to do the same thing.”

“But this time we’ll let a compactor compact the road after we have gravelled it and we want to do that work by the weekend so that the road will be motorable for users,” he said.

The Chairman of the Kpone Barrier Taxi Drivers Union, Rexford Ntiamoah, however, indicates that they will recommence their protest by Monday, August 21, 2023, if the MCE fails to fix the roads.

“The reason why we didn’t do the sit-down strike this morning is because of the survey made by the assembly yesterday, we have an assurance from the Assemblyman that within this week we’ll see something on the road, that is why we have called it off.”

“So this is not permanent, we’re waiting to see what they’ll do and if from today up to Saturday we don’t see anything, we’ll call on a meeting again on Sunday with the Tema chairman, Ashaiman chairman and all the stakeholders and Monday we’ll work on it again,” he said.

Commercial drivers of Saki-Bediako in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality embarked on a one-week sit-down strike on Monday, August 14, 2023, over deplorable roads. 

Rexmond Ntiamoah, Chairman of the Kpone Barrier taxi local union, reiterated that the stretch from Kpone Barrier to the Michel Camp gate through Saki to Bediako junction and Bediako last stop had been abandoned for a long time, hence the call for the sit-down strike.