BY Aaron Wesley Geezay,geezayaaron@gmail.com,0880992716/0770992716/geezayaaron@gmail.com
Yarpah Town, Rivercess, Liberia— Despite the efforts of the Liberian government and its development partners in reconstructing the Timbo River Bridge, one of the major obstacles to those travelling to Liberia’s southeastern region through Grand Bassa and Rivercess, the constraints for citizens in commuting the route to the southeast still remains.
One major challenge for the southeasterners over the years is the bad road conditions during the rainy season all-year round.
Every year due to unpaved road condition, the roads get muddy; and this rainy season is no exception to the previous years.
During the rainy season when the roads get deplorable and terrible for travelers, there can be serious increment in transportation fare, owning to the facts that drivers themselves will have to go through extra expensive before getting passengers to their separate destinations.
It takes vehicles, mainly heavy duty trucks two to three weeks to get their ways trough the muddy road from Big Joe Town in Grand Bassa County to Cestos City and other parts of Rivercess as well as Greenville, Barclayville and Harper.
Most often, this is due to the lack of maintenance of the road by either the government or concessioners that also use the roads in transporting their raw materials to the various seaports.
Since the 2016 Independence Day Celebration that was hosted by Grand Kru and Sinoe Counties, there has been no major rehabilitation on the road.
Currently, there are hundreds of vehicles stocked in the mud at various destinations along the southeastern road, more than two months left to end the rainy season.
Most of those cut by the mud told this paper that there is a need that the President Weah led administration whose major priority is road to begin living up to its first State of the Nation address in which he said the coastal road will be completed during the first six years of his government.
One of those is Alfred Parjlo who said “it is more than one year six years since President George Weah took Office and our old age problem still remains.
“He said this road was going to be taken into serious consideration as president but as you can now the road is bad in August like this, and trust me it will even get worst for than ever before. All I can say is the President needs to see reason that his government will start project in the next dry season, if not so, our suffering in this part of the country will continue. Parjlo concluded.”
For her part, Amelia Tarpeh, a business woman who is on board a truck with her goods said she has been in the mud with her goods for more than a week.
“Since last week Thursday we started this journey we have not gone anywhere and have spent these numbers of days to just to cross the Timbo River that used to be a barrier.
“From here to Sinoe is still a long way and we still having more of these ahead of us, and we hope the George Weah government will end this problem for us.”
The two made the assertion over the weekend along the Grand Bassa to Rivercess Highway.