SOUTH-EAST COMMUNITY COMPLAINED ABOUT BAD ROAD IN LIBERIA

Community members in the south-east of Liberia are complaining about the bad road network that connects between Gio Town in Grand Bassa County and ITI community in Rivercess County.

It is reported that atleast 20 vehicles get stuck in the mud for several days every week. These vehicles will then be removed by some youth who help get those vehicles through the mud whereby preventing further gridlock on the already bad road.

However, the bigger picture has to be the progress of business and development, bound for Southeastern Liberia which will surely be blocked due to the condition of the road.

Commercial Drivers who ply the road on a daily basis said the road between Gio Town in Grand Bassa and ITI community in Rivercess County are so deplorable that commercial drivers and motorcyclists have drastically increased their fares.

These drivers who on a norm manage to squeeze at least two or three roundtrips in a week, have constrained themselves to just one roundtrip which has drastically cutting their projected incomes due to the bad road.

Meanwhile, in addition to the time value lost, there is the extra wear and tear on the vehicles, as though that weren’t enough already, there’s the perennial cost of “dropping the gates” at state security checkpoints along the road. While also bearing in mind that some portion of the fares also go toward paying off those who will assist the vehicles, when stuck in the mud, to get out.

Before now, commercial vehicles would charge $10,000 while motorbikes would charge L$6,000 for the distance from Buchanan to Greenville. But with the bad road, the price has skyrocketed to around L$16,000 for vehicle and around L$10,000 for motorbikes.

For now, no hope of getting such road fixed as the nation attention is focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, but for how long will resident in the south-east continue to suffer from such difficult challenge facing the region.

 

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