Nana Yaw Kesseh, a journalist with Despite Media and leader of the protest against the poor state of the Ofankor-Nsawam road, has clarified that the demonstration was not intended to tarnish the government's image, but to demand urgent attention to a crisis affecting thousands of Ghanaians daily.
Speaking during the protest, Kesseh shared a personal account of how the neglected road has disrupted his family's life, highlighting the far-reaching impact of the stalled project. "We [journalists] are part of the suffering," he said. "Because of this road, my children who used to school in Airport West - I have withdrawn them because I have to wake the children up by 4 a.m.
It was too much for them, so I have withdrawn them and they no more go to school there.
That is the effect we are talking about." He stressed that the protest was not politically motivated but a peaceful call for the government to fulfill its responsibility to the people. "So it is not anybody making government unpopular, anybody waging something against government, but it is about citizens' peaceful demand to have what is rightfully ours," Kesseh said.
