Over 20 communities in the Central Gonja District have appealed to the government to rehabilitate the Kpinjipe Bridge that links them to Tamale. Some of the communities affected include Kpinjipe, Gbenja, Jukuku, Wuripekura, Bomahinaakuraa, Dioma, Kulfo, Chama, Tuluwe, Adape, Fiita-Kura and Kulfobilla. The bridge collapsed about six months ago when it could not withstand the weight of an articulator truck that the Catholic Church hired to carry over six hundred bags of cement to work on some school projects in the area. The people say with the collapse of the bridge, trading with neighbouring villages as well as having access to Tamale, on which they depend for salt and other commodities had become difficult. They made this appeal when Mr Issifu Salisu Be-awuribe, the District Chief Executive of Central Gonja, inspected the broken down bridge and to reassure them that the government was in the process of working on it. Mr Zakaria Yussif, an opinion leader of the Kpinjipe community, noted that if the bridge was not rehabilitated before the rains set in, students attending secondary schools in the district capitals might not be able to do so because vehicles cannot cross the bridge to pick them up. Source: GNA