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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 88417, member: 27"]
Almost half a million jobs have reportedly popped up from Ghana's Big Push infrastructure blitz, and contractors are already halfway done on some projects.

Big Push is a massive jobs engine
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[*]Governs Kwame Agbodza pegged job creation at nearly 500,000.
[*]Contractor supply chains hired engineers, surveyors, and graduates.
[*]Local carpenters, masons, and cooks got community-level gigs.
[*]Agbodza wants even more hires from the surrounding areas.
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Jinijini-Sampa Road got a lifeline
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[*]President Mahama personally inspected construction on that route.
[*]The original contractor failed to mobilize, so Big Push absorbed it.
[*]Road lacked a funding source before the program intervened.
[*]The finished product will feature asphalt surfacing.
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Payments are flowing to contractors
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[*]Agbodza confirmed that Big Push work certificates started getting paid.
[*]Mahama promised prompt payment, and delivery has already begun.
[*]Some contractors have knocked out 50% of their workload.
[*]Project handovers are expected before the year's end.
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Road unlocks economic potential for communities
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[*]Cashew farmers previously had zero reliable transport access.
[*]A completed road means better returns on agricultural investment.
[*]Agbodza framed it as a quality-of-life upgrade, not just asphalt.
[*]Mahama's Bono Region tour covered multiple ongoing projects.
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