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Ketu South: Aflao residents demonstrate over deplorable Diamond Cement road
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Some residents of Aflao and its surrounding towns in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region have held a demonstration to protest over the bad state of the Aflao Diamond cement road network.
The demonstrators numbering over thousands clothed in red and black outfits amidst chanting war songs on the principal streets of Aflao on Tuesday, May 11 appealed to the government to as a matter of urgency make it motorable.
According to some of the aggrieved protesters, the Diamond Cement road was left unattended for some years now.
Aflao residents go on rampage over poor roads LISTEN
MAY 11, 2021
Angry residents of Aflao in the Ketu South municipality on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, hit the streets in protest against poor roads in the area.
According to them, promises made by the government to fix the roads especially those leading to the Diamond Cement Factory are yet to materialize.
The demonstrators, including motorcycle riders, were clad in red and black to register their disappointment amidst chanting and wielding of placards to communicate their grievances.
“Our road is not good. We have been asking the government to fix the road for some time now but nothing has changed. We’ve approached Diamond Cement factory, which is a major factory here to help us fix the road, but they said they are paying so much in taxes to the government, so they can only do something if government stops taking taxes from them,” one protestor said.
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