By Solomon T. Gaye
The Doe Administrative District Commissioner, Chris Joe, says bad road condition is hampering the smooth running of the district and is creating hardship for residents.
Speaking to this paper via mobile phone, commissioner Joe, disclosed that bad road conditions connecting Tappita to Zwedru is creating hardship among the residents in transporting their goods from Zwedru to the Tappita market.
According to commissioner Joe, the main government’s road from Tappita to Gblor Dialah going towards the border town in Kparblee district and Zwedru in Grand Gedeh is completely cut-off.
“A Bag of 25 kg rice is sold for L$ 3,650 in Tappita, while other towns outside of Tappita are selling rice(25kg) at L$3, 000 far above government’s stipulated price”, commissioner Joe revealed.
Speaking further, the Commissioner pointed out that the deplorable laterite road condition is creating serious hardship on many of the residents in transporting patients to Jackson Fiah Doe (JFD) Memorial Hospital in Tappita, for treatment.
“The government’s clinic is situated in Gblor Dialah Town, the bad road from Dialah to Tappita has made it difficult for the clinic to transfer critical patients to J.F.D Hospital in Tappita,” commissioner Joe lamented.
“The citizens are suffering because of the bad road condition as a result of the heavy down pour of rains”, adding, “there is no way for the farmers in Gblor Kweepea, Zuolay, Graye or Toweh Town, to transport their crops to the market, this issue is worrisome,” commissioner Joe asserted.
The Doe Administrative District is among the highest producers of local food crops including plantains, eddoes, cassava, along the lower Nimba belt that supply Montserrado and the counties of the southeastern region.
It can be recalled that since the onset of the 2024 rainy season, many of the farmers that were conveying local commodities from Tappita to Monrovia got stranded in the mud for over weeks in towns along the road thereby causing economic loss to the farmers as a result of the perishable nature of their products.
