Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwame Governs Agbodza has given the owner of a billboard at the Ashaiman Roundabout one week to remove it, warning that the structure is obstructing preparations for the construction of a flyover.
The Minister issued the directive during an inspection of the Ashaiman-Afienya-Atimpoku road project on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The project is being undertaken by German construction firm, INZAG GmbH.
He said the billboard had been erected within the road’s right of way and could interfere with the planned flyover construction.
“Whoever owns that billboard at Ashaiman Roundabout currently, it is within the rights of way. We are giving them a week to decommission it and take it out because there is a flyover coming there, and we cannot work around the flyover, so it has to be decommissioned,” he said.
Agbodza warned that the government would remove the billboard if the owner failed to comply with the directive within the one-week deadline.
“If next week by this time, we don’t get it decommissioned, we will remove it ourselves so that we don’t distort the contractor’s progress,” he added.
In a related development, the Minister also directed contractors working on the Ashaiman-Atimpoku road project to create additional capacity lanes to ease traffic congestion and ensure smoother movement of motorists during the Christmas season.
“The cardinal request currently is for you to make sure that for the sake of Christmas, we make sure we create additional capacity to facilitate using the corridor.
“We don’t want to ruin anybody’s Christmas being stuck in traffic for 6 hours.”
