Ghana: Tomatoes left to rot following bridge repair
The development, the traders mentioned, has affected their business as they cannot bring their cartons of tomatoes to its final destination—Accra—for sale, a situation they said, was accounting for the large cartons of rotten tomatoes.
They stated that officials of the Ghana Highways Authority (GHA) and security personnel manning the Buipe bridge do not allow their vehicles loaded with cartons of tomatoes to cross to Accra after 4:00 pm.
As a result of that, the traders said their vehicles are forced to park at Buipe till the next day which makes the tomatoes go rotten.
Unfortunately, the traders revealed that drivers who speed up on the way in order to beat the 4:00 p.m., deadline to cross the dam sometimes get themselves involved in fatal motor accidents.
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