[ 2021-02-17 ]

Nana Addo’s government undertook over 50 road projects in first term
The Roads and Highways Minister-designate, Kwasi
Amoako-Attah says the government has in the last
four years embarked on about 55 road projects to
improve the country’s poor road network.

For him, the massive road infrastructure
undertaken by the Nana Akufo-Addo administration
translates into about 25,000 kilometres of roads
constructed in the first term.

Taking his turn before Parliament’s Appointments
Committee for confirmation of his reappointment,
Mr. Amoako-Attah intimated that “a lot has been
done in the [road] sector.”

“For the past four years generally, and last
year especially, aggressive work was done in the
road sector. This is being appreciated and seen
across the country. We have done almost 1,200
kilometres of asphalt overlays. In terms of
surface dressing, we have done about 50 to 55
different road projects which add up to not less
than 25,000 kilometres”.

Mr. Amoako-Attah, however, admitted that more
development is needed in the sector.

According to him, before his assumption of office
in 2017 only 39 percent of the roads in the
country were in good shape.

He said at the time, 23 percent of the total
80,000 kilometres of roads in Ghana had been paved
or seen bitumen with the remaining 77 percent at
gravel or earth stage.

“If you take the state of the roads in the
country, it’s one thing that all of us must
accept, we have not done too well with”, he
stated.

But the President’s nominee for the Roads and
Highways Ministry mentioned that aside from the
roads projects, “we have also worked on a number
of bridges and interchanges across the country.”

Source - Citinewsroom

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