Government undertook over 50 road projects in first term – Amoako-Attah

The minister-designate of roads and highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, said the government has engaged in around 55 road projects over the past four years to improve the country’s poor road network.

For him, the massive road infrastructure undertaken by the Nana Akufo-Addo administration translates into around 25,000 kilometers of roads built in the first quarter.

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

“Over the past four years in general, and the past year in particular, hard work has been done in the road sector. It is appreciated and seen across the country. We have completed nearly 1,200 kilometers of asphalt paving. In terms of surface coating, we have completed around 50 to 55 different road projects totaling no less than 25,000 kilometers ”.

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

According to him, before he took office in 2017, only 39% of the country’s roads were in good condition.

He said at the time that 23 percent of the 80,000 kilometers of roads in Ghana had been paved or seen asphalt, the remaining 77 percent in gravel or dirt.

“If you take the state of the roads in the country, that’s something we all have to accept, we haven’t done very well,” he said.

But the president’s candidate for the highways and highways ministry said that apart from the road projects, “we have also worked on a number of bridges and interchanges across the country.

— citinewsroom