Kwakwani residents alarmed at shoddy road works

A road that was paved twice and which lasted six months each time.

Residents of Kwakwani, Region 10 have expressed alarm that despite millions spent twice on the same road in the community not only did it crumble each time, but the authorities are moving to do another section without ensuring value-for-money.

“It is very surprising that after wasting millions of dollars on a paved road, work is in progress to do another stretch of paved road,” resident Jocelyn Morian said in a letter published in the Stabroek News. He recalled that Kwakwani was promised paved roads for the first time after the 2011 regional and general elections and subsequently, a stretch of road was constructed and destroyed within six months. That same stretch was redone and also lasted for just over six months, he said. “Now with the rainy season here, the community is getting a clear picture of the exceedingly poor quality of work and waste of money,” he added.

Morian told Stabroek News that his fellow residents are equally disturbed by the Local Government Ministry not