Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwame Governs Agbodza has said government has not abandoned existing road projects initiated by the previous NPP administration.
In an interview on TV3’s Hot Issues, Sunday, August 3, 2025 the Minister outlined a number of road projects started by the erstwhile government which the current Mahama administration has taken over with works ongoing.
He clarified that unlike the previous government, the John Mahama-led administration is committed to completing existing road projects to ensure free flow of vehicles and aid in transportation of goods.
“In any case, those who say we are abandoning existing projects, I mean they should look at themselves and ask. We are taking on a project of $340 million you awarded to Ofankor and last week, we paid over GHC400 million to that contractor, this week we will continue paying, how do you call that government is abandoning existing projects.
“The Kasoa-Winneba Road, the contractor is working, we have renovated that and we are going to complete work. The Agona-Takoradi project which you awarded and have not paid GHC1 which we are taking on, how then do you say we are abandoning projects.
“In any case unlike 2017 when the government gave the directive that all cocoa road projects to be suspended pending investigations, President Mahama’s government never asked any contractor to suspend any project anywhere so there’s no iota of evidence to say that we have abandoned road projects in the country, all contractors working on the by-pass projects are free to go to work” he stated.
According to him, government has resolved to renovate a number of existing road projects unto the Big Push Agenda. He noted that these projects will be accorded the same priority as projects under the Big Push Agenda and will be funded.
“The President says that though these projects were awarded by the previous administration. The importance of this project means that we cannot wait so we should prioritise them the same way his own flagship Big Push projects are prioritized.
“So, we renovate those contracts unto a Big Push and put them under the same funding. If you go to Kumasi, the Interchange that is supposed to be built there which has stalled because it is a supplier’s credit and then we can’t find the money, we are taking on that project as additional Big Push project so that we can financed them within the same framework,” he said.
The Minister continued: “So, there are two or three categories that we are prioritizing currently. The original Big Push project, the project we are novating unto Big Push project which has been started.”
