{"id":1328,"date":"2019-09-08T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2019-09-08T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T21:37:00","slug":"collapsing-sogakope-bridge-killed-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Collapsing Sogakope bridge killed 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiP8YR1na2ge-vpt6uDtnzftBBbwKhSJUEJGBDSoDcmU3d8IYzRmTK33tqq4FvVysT33-FmDSZ-c14mxon22yCp9M45umeAMEH3ZL5exuaqhZTbCDuexlJnm50MgRo-ThTEn_rgEX0fFlI\/s1600\/Bridge.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"377\" data-original-width=\"670\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiP8YR1na2ge-vpt6uDtnzftBBbwKhSJUEJGBDSoDcmU3d8IYzRmTK33tqq4FvVysT33-FmDSZ-c14mxon22yCp9M45umeAMEH3ZL5exuaqhZTbCDuexlJnm50MgRo-ThTEn_rgEX0fFlI\/s320\/Bridge.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>At least five people have died in crashes on the deteriorating Sagokope Bridge<br \/><a name='more'><\/a> that spans the lower part of&nbsp; the Volta River.<br \/>District Chief Executive (DCE) for South Tongu, Emmanuel Louise Agamah, says the bridge is now a death trap and needs urgent repairs to save lives.<br \/>&#8220;This bridge is an important link in the Abijan-Lagos Corridor Road but it is deteriorated now. The expansion have deteriorated. There are pot hole on the bridge and whenever drivers and motorists try to dodge the potholes they crash in the process leading to numerous deaths,&#8221;<br \/>Even this year, five people have lost their lives while several others have sustained injuries on the bridge. The residents are angry and want to demonstrate but we usually have to calm tempers down, I have sent letters on several occasions to Ghana Highways Authority and i have ask questions on when this bridge will be repaired but to no avail,&#8221; Mr Agamah told the Ghana News Agency.<br \/>Mr. Amadu Kormpalla, Station Master Sogakope Lorry Station, who was a worker during the construction of the bridge, said &#8220;The rods in which the bridge is resting, are very tiny and if you a take careful look, you could see that they have all rusted and look very weak.<br \/>&nbsp;&#8220;See, this bridge will kill about thousands of people one day before authorities will take any action,&#8221; he lamented.<br \/>Community members, drivers and motorists were afraid the bridge would give way and cause a lot of deaths because part of the 650-meter bridge shook even when motorbikes passed on it yet heavy trucks are allowed to use it.<br \/>We have only been praying that God will protect us throughout the day because this is&nbsp; what we do for a living. We tried to demonstrate about it but the DCE calmed us down assuring us that it willbe done in Easter and till date no sign of even the contractor,&#8221; Sammy, a driver, stressed<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: www.Ghanaweb,com<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five people have died in crashes on the deteriorating Sagokope Bridge that spans the lower part of&nbsp; the Volta River.District Chief Executive (DCE) for South Tongu, Emmanuel Louise Agamah, says the bridge is now a death trap and needs urgent repairs to save lives.&#8220;This bridge is an important link in the Abijan-Lagos Corridor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-home","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Collapsing Sogakope bridge killed 5 - Gh-newsbay<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=1328\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Collapsing Sogakope bridge killed 5 - Gh-newsbay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least five people have died in crashes on the deteriorating Sagokope Bridge that spans the lower part of&nbsp; 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