Residents of Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region have taken to the streets to protest poor road conditions, underdevelopment, and poor administration.
Dubbed ‘Sekondi-Takoradi Deserves Better’, demonstrators are furious over the area’s underdevelopment, hazardous road conditions, and inept leadership.
Numerous demonstrators were observed donning red and black clothing and holding signs that read, among other things, “Fix Our Roads,” “We Are Tired of Bad Leadership,” and “Takoradi Deserves Better.”
The decision to take to the streets to vent their rage is a result of Sekondi-Takoradi’s long history of neglect, according to Samuel Gyimah, Convener of the Concerned Youth of Sekondi-Takoradi.
“We are protesting because of the poor condition of the roads here, the hospitals, the broken traffic lights and lamps, and the fact that nothing works in this town after dark.
“We want to go and ask our leaders if they are leading us to truth or they are just denying us of our rights.”
“Since nothing is working here and development is regressing, we are demonstrating this morning. The youth are dying from unemployment, the roads are appalling, and a lot of things are broken.
An incensed resident named Philip Fiifi Buckman added, “We have decided to speak and talk to leadership that we deserve better because many things that are used to develop the country come from the Western Region, of which Sekondi-Takoradi is the capital, yet our roads are bad and nothing works here.” In other words, the leadership is not working.”
