The Minister for Roads and Highways, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has announced the reassignment of the Amasaman Three Junction to Kojo-Ashong road project in the Ga West Municipality to a new contractor during his inspection of the place.
The road, which had been deteriorating, was initially contracted out but the contractor was absent at the time of the visit.
The minister assessed the situation and decided to manage the project under the urban roads department, directing the highway authority to promptly address the broken bridge issue.
He stated, “The road is bad. It had been given on contract some time ago but we had issues with the contractor and also the emerging development along the corridor.
“So we had issues with the contract. Since I have been here, I have had discussions with my officials and we are going to terminate that contract. Repackage it, rescope the project and give it to a new contractor.”
“In fact, the project had been under a feeder road but as you can see this area has been developed and it is pretty urban now. We are even looking at moving the project to urban roads so that they can properly manage it.”
He assured that the necessary processes would be expedited for a contractor to commence work as soon as possible.
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