All Major Roads To Be Completed Soon -Roads Minister Affirms

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, has given an assurance that all major road projects under construction will be completed.

He said the government was highly committed to significantly improving the country’s road infrastructure to boost its developmental agenda.

“From this month, with the President having declared 2021 and 2022 as the years of roads, we are going to see to the completion of all the major road projects started by the government across the country since 2017,” he explained.

He gave the assurance when he visited three project sites, namely: the Ofankor-Nsawam highway rehabilitation, the La Beach Road and the construction of the flyover at Flower Pot on the Accra-Tema Motorway.

His assurance comes following government income shortfall that has delayed some projects to improve the vehicle sector.

The inspection yesterday formed piece of the minister’s routine inspection of ongoing road projects in the country.

He was accompanied by some senior officials and engineers from the ministry, officials from the Ghana Highway Authority and the departments of Urban Roads and Feeder Roads and the municipal chief executives (MCEs) for the various municipalities in whose jurisdictions the projects fell.

Mr Amoako-Atta said a number of projects had been completed, adding that a couple of more would soon be inaugurated in the first quarter of this year.

He communicated satisfaction with the rate at which the various contractors had worked and the phases of completion they had reached and asked them not to yield on their commitment to deliver quality roads for the populace.

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“The government is happy when it sees contractors putting in great efforts on projects assigned to them, despite facing some difficulties. I also want to say that the government is firmly behind all companies working to improve the road infrastructure of our country,” he said.