A four-million-dollar 4.0-kilometre concrete road dubbed “Ghana-China Friendship Road” at Kpone in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality of the Greater Accra Region has been commissioned.
Ghana witnessed its first concrete road 55 years ago in 1965, which is a 19-kilometre double lane road, popularly called “Accra-Tema Motorway” linking the industrial city of Tema to the national capital, Accra.
Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, was the first to construct such a road, the Tema Motorway, to link the industrial city of Tema to Accra in 1965; the road is still in use today.
Road construction experts say concrete roads last a minimum of 40 years, with just occasional rehabilitation works. Although it has an initially higher construction cost, it is much cheaper in the long run and is more environmentally friendly.
The Kpone-Katamanso concrete road began in April 2018 after Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia cut the sod for work.
The Sunon-Asogli Power Plant Limited, a Chinese majority shareholding power company, in collaboration with the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly, constructed it.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/ Kofi Atakora
