The police within the Bono Area have intensified patrols on the Sunyani-Atronie stretch of the principle Sunyani-Kenyasi highway.
This follows current surge in armed theft assaults by freeway robbers on drivers and commuters who plies that stretch of the highway.
The 38-kilometre stretch, a key route linking Ahafo and Bono Areas, has turn into a secure haven for freeway robbers who rob and generally kill their victims.
The robbers appear to take pleasure in a discipline day as a result of deplorable state of the highway.
As half measures to counter prison actions on the highway, the police has mounted 5 safety checkpoints alongside that stretch with the motion of the police patrol staff intensified.
The Bono Regional Minister, Joseph Addae Akwaboa, at about 11pm on final Wednesday paid a shock go to to those examine factors to determine whether or not the measures put in place by the Bono Areaal Safety Council was being adhered to.
Mr Addae-Akwaboa instructed journalists after the go to that the transfer was a broader safety measure instituted by REGSEC to guard lives and property.
In line with him the insecurity scenario on the Sunyani-Atronie stretch was a significant concern for the Safety Council, therefore the choice to beef up safety to deal with the problem.
He introduced that the Ntotroso-Sunyani freeway can be awarded on contract come subsequent 12 months underneath the federal government’s massive push highway enhancement mission.
The Assemblyman for Atronie Electoral Space, Richard Adu, confirmed the rampant theft assaults by freeway robbers on
that stretch of the highway.
He described the rising insecurity on the highway as deeply alarming and recommended the police for the measures being implemented to deliver the scenario underneath management.
Nana Kwame Bediako, a taxi driver who plies that stretch of the highway, lamented that he and his different colleague drivers all the time entertain fears at any time when utilizing the highway as a result of frequent robberies and sporadic gunfire alongside the route
FROM DANIEL DZIRASAH, SUNYANI
