Public Relations Officer at the Ministry of Roads and Highways, Ahmed Yartey has revealed that about 95 percent of the asphalt overlay ongoing in the Country are Government of Ghana (GoG)-funded projects and not foreign-funded projects.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that his government’s target of constructing, in this second term, one thousand, five hundred kilometres (1,500kms) of asphalt overlay works is very much on course.
According to the President, “Asphaltic overlay works throughout the country are also ongoing. One thousand and five kilometres (1,005kms) were completed between 2017 and 2020, and seven hundred and thirty-nine kilometres (739kms) of asphaltic overlay have been completed between 2021 and now. Government’s target of constructing, in this second term, one thousand, five hundred kilometres (1,500kms) of asphalt overlay works is very much on course”.
However, Ahmed Yartey, has refuted claims that all Government of Ghana-funded projects have stalled are not entirely factual.
Mr Yartey also admitted that some contractors are struggling with non-payment of already executed projects, but added that the government is putting in place measures to pay the contractors.
“Some local contractors are struggling, I will not say it is not a fact some are going through it…prices have gone up, prices of bitumen are up and all those things affect road construction and the capital of contractors.”
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kofi Atakora
