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General News of Monday, July 22, 2019
Source: ghananewsagency.org
2019-07-22
play the videoKojo Oppong-Nkrumah, Minister of Information
The government has announced plans to begin road infrastructure development in the second half of the year, for a total of three billion cedis.
Road projects are expected to have a major national boost to the resumption of cocoa road projects.
It will be recalled that the cocoa road projects were interrupted for verification and redefinition of the scope and for an appropriate alignment of the funds necessary for their execution.
Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Minister of Information, announced this information at a press conference in Accra on Sunday.
He added that once the audit was completed, some road projects were stopped and others redefined, while others were outsourced to relevant agencies, such as Highways and Urban Roads, to run them.
He added that funds are now available to start these projects, with the badurance that contractors will be paid for the work done.
He said more than three billion cedis of cocoa roads are expected to start under the new program in the country's cocoa producing areas.
Other road projects financed by the budget and the central government road fund are expected to resume during the year, he said.
He added that LEKMA and other roads had already been contracted with contractors already mobilized on the site.
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