Residents of Bawisibele, a community in the Sissala East Municipality of the Upper West Region, have expressed concerns over the poor telecommunication networks in the area.
According to residents, they have a challenge accessing major telecommunication networks such as MTN, Vodafone Ghana, AirtelTigo and other networks as the telecommunication masts in the community is not functioning properly since it was mounted in 2020.
They said the situation has hindered effective communication in the area which in turn is affecting their social and economic lives especially, during emergencies.
The residents made this known in an interview with Pulung fm’s reporter, Iddrisu Dasana noting that the network mast planted at the community is unable to serve their telecommunication needs.
The Assembly Member for Bawisibele Electoral Area, Hon. Yakubu Naaba Saani, noted that, inaccessibility of telecommunication network is hugely affecting business.
He is of the view that, the people of Bawisibele will continue to lag behind if successive governments fail to provide them with such basic social amenities especially in the current global setting.
According to the Assemblyman they have to climb trees and anthills in search of a network to make or receive calls when the need arises and that this deprived them of accessing vital information on time and derailed their business efforts.
The paramount Chief of Bawisibele traditional area, Kuoro Sakpara Akate opined that the poor service in the community is not encouraging.
He confirmed that teaching and learning has vastly been affected because students and teachers have to trek long distance to access stable internet service.
The chief said the continued absence of the facility in the community put them at risk.
He mentioned that, the community members are living in fear and panic due to the absence of the facility in the town.
Kuoro Sakpara, said all attempts to bring authorities to act on the issue have failed.
He thus renewed their appeal to the government and telecommunication companies to come to their aid by hooking them onto the telecommunication grid.
