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July 27, 2025
Minister for Roads and Highways has told Parliament that all road projects in Ghana started by the New Patriotic Party administration that has stalled would be rolled onto the John Mahama infrastructure project the “big push”.
According to him everything within the Country is on road; no wonder that in the minds of Ghanaians addressing road issues comes first and the “big push” is not a constituency specific project; it is a national programme to first of all address interconnection of roads to our regions and address significant traffic bottleneck across the country; and the project would go through some constituencies but those were not the main consideration.
He added during the consideration of the second reading of the Road Maintenance Trust Fund Bill 2025, that the list of roads mentioned by the finance minister during the mid-year review was clear and outlined the President’s vision under the ‘big push’. “Since then, the president has directed that stalled road projects should be added, and these are projects started previously but have been stopped.
He affirmed that not too long-ago people demonstrated about the Ofankor-Nsawam road project, adding that the phenomenon is common in other places too.
“None of those projects have had dedicated funds, if we leave them, they might never be completed, and the president says we should roll all those projects onto the big push so we can priorities their funding and complete them”.
He stated that he has never asked that contracts should be terminated or contractors should stop working; instead, they investigate as it happened in 2017.
“I have rather gone round the country and encouraged contractors to work, and we would pay them”, he pointed out to the House.
Every single region would be touched by the big push; it is not correct to say North East is not part.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com