Nakori and Chansa both communities are a suburb of Wa Municipality in the upper west region that shares boundaries with Wa west district to the west. They are predominantly farming communities and existed over one thousand years with tourists attraction.

Local Authorities at some point had a meeting with the Wa Municipal Assembly and leadership of Wood dealers and some stakeholders to relocate wood and timber dealers from behind the regional secretariat of DVLA to Nakori with reasons that the land allocated to them even though they were still in town wasn’t enough and that as regional timber and wood operators it was optimal to fall under the Wa municipality than Nadowli/Kaleo district since Wa was the regional Capital and same time a municipality.

The Wa Municipal Assembly under the administration of Issahaku Moomin Tahiru with the Municipal Assembly has championed development after comprehensively providing the Nakori Wood Village with social amenities such as:
1.Police Station.
2.Water.
3.Electricity.
4.Four linked roads aside the Nakori Chansah main Road and
5.Clinic.
6.Toilet facility.
Yet for the past six years leadership of wood dealers kept asking for more time to relocate when the social amenities with funding from the municipal development fund are deteriorating day in and out thereby tempting rehabilitation.
It is also as clear as a “lightening thunder in a darkest cloud” that the environmental protection agency and other health professionals are pointing accusing fingers on stakeholders on why wood dealers are located within the central business district and causing more harm to communities especially saw dust,truck parking on road side to offload and trucks parking to be loaded to other destinations.

Meanwhile the Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service in Collaboration with the National Roads Safety Commission alluded lawlessness, carelessness and recklessness to be the major cause of road accident in Ghana of which the above is not exempted .

There are a lot of case study on road accidents especially wood dealers closer to roadsides in upper west.

Source: Jinsung Rashid/GBC