Ghana's Roads and Highways Minister Governs Kwame Agbodza just set up a nine-person advisory board to help fix the country's busted road system. The group has heavy hitters like Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson and a bunch of engineering and surveying experts who'll tackle some pretty gnarly problems.
Agbodza laid out the damage at the board's kickoff in Accra, revealing contractors are owed more than 40 billion cedis while the ministry is drowning in projects worth over 120 billion cedis. He called out how previous administrations kept green-lighting construction work without securing money first, which predictably made costs balloon out of control. The minister also went off about how anyone can apparently dump random bitumen on roads without proper checks, even though bottled water gets more regulatory scrutiny.
Forson promised the finance ministry would back major infrastructure plans like the Accra to Kumasi Expressway and confirmed his team wants to make sure taxpayer money doesn't get wasted on subpar road work.
Agbodza laid out the damage at the board's kickoff in Accra, revealing contractors are owed more than 40 billion cedis while the ministry is drowning in projects worth over 120 billion cedis. He called out how previous administrations kept green-lighting construction work without securing money first, which predictably made costs balloon out of control. The minister also went off about how anyone can apparently dump random bitumen on roads without proper checks, even though bottled water gets more regulatory scrutiny.
Forson promised the finance ministry would back major infrastructure plans like the Accra to Kumasi Expressway and confirmed his team wants to make sure taxpayer money doesn't get wasted on subpar road work.
