Buildings to go down to shine Ashaiman

The Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) has earmarked structures that have extended into major ancillary streets and roads for demolition.

Parts of Ashaiman New Town are the worst affected areas and the exercise has been welcomed by property owners. To them, the expansion of the narrow streets and roads would ease the daily gridlock that commuter’s encounter in the municipality.

Before the demolition exercise by the Ashaiman Municipality begins, property owners have gone ahead of the Assembly to pull down their affected structures.

Additionally, temporary structures have either been relocated or moved inward, demonstrating their willingness to sacrifice for the beautification of Ashaiman.

Series of community engagements between the Assembly members and the residents were held last year, 2025. As a result, when the affected structures were marked in December 2025 for demolition to start in January 2026, the action did not receive any resistance from the community.

Official Town, Lebanon, Zango Laka, Asensu and Jericho, all in the municipality are receiving some major facelifts in the construction of new drains, reshaping of lanes and streets, and erection of streetlights.

The road from a section of the New Town junction to the Afariwa junction, which has been terrible in the last eight years, has been reshaped to ease vehicular movement.

These, to the residents, are testimony of a hardworking Chief Executive in the person of Freeman Tsekpo and their Member of Parliament, Ernest Norgbey.

Although the main road from Lebanon to Ashaiman Traffic remains terrible, residents and commuters expressed confidence that the Assembly, led by Freeman Tsekpo, who until his appointment was an Assemblyman, would fix it before his tenure ends.

Kenneth Kudavor, the Assemblyman for Monomanye Electoral Area, said “This MCE is showing working and my colleagues and I are excited at the pace Honorable Tsekpo is moving. If we didn’t have confidence in him, now we do.”

Business owners along the Official Town and Ashaiman New Town road and commuters hailed the MCE for swiftly patching the dusty and pothole road.

The road is an ancillary to commuters from Atadeka to Tema and Accra, however, its awful state in the past years contributed to the daily heavy vehicular traffic from Atadeka to Ashaiman Traffic in the mornings and evenings.

Since the Assembly fixed the road in December 2025, the volume of traffic on it has increased, thus reducing the traffic on the main road between Ashaiman Traffic and New Town junction.

Some former Assembly members and opinion leaders who are witnessing the rapid developments in Ashaiman questioned the tenure of the past MCEs, saying that they should be blamed for the miserable state of Ashaiman.

Mr Edward Aryee, 72 and one of the oldest opinion leaders and early settlers at New Town said “I don’t need to know the new MCE, but I can say that he is a gift to Ashaiman. Our past MCEs are failures and I wish their names were expunged from our records.”

 

 

 

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