Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways Alhassan Suhuyini has disclosed that before the end of this year, there will be significant improvement on the Pokuase-Nsawam road, indicating that the return of the contractor is not a nine-day wonder.
He was responding to a question by Davis Ansah Opoku, MP for Mpraeso at the Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday, August 20, 2025.
The road project has stalled after the contractor abandoned site over lack of payment. Commuters and commercial transport operators had grown increasingly frustrated with the deplorable state of the highway.
However, the Deputy Roads Minister is optimistic that significant improvement will soon be witnessed on the Pokuase-Nsawam stretch.
“We have been working with the finance minister to ensure that we get some releases to these contractors so they can go back and complete some of these critical projects.
“This particular contractor fortunately, has received some payment and has now adequately mobilized back to site and it is our hope that before the end of this year, some significant improvement would have been noticed on that stretch and so it is not going to be a nine-day wonder. He’s back to site to continue with the project and we are very confident that it will now be within schedule,” he told the Committee.
The Deputy Minister further apologised for the delay in completing the project and the frustration it is causing commuters.
“I have my Minister’s permission to first of all apologise to all motorists on that stretch. It is one of the hotspots we inherited in the Ministry. By the time we got to the Ministry, the contractor like many other contractors across the country had already abandoned site due to lack of payment,” he added.
The Controller and Accountant General, Kwasi Agyei, has confirmed that the government has fully settled its financial obligations to the contractor working on the Pokuase–Nsawam Highway, with payments totaling GH¢809 million as of August 4, 2025.
“On July 24, we gave part payment; on July 30, another tranche; and on August 4, the final payment. Altogether, we have honoured the request in full, amounting to about GH¢809 million,” Mr. Agyei disclosed in an interview on Peace FM on Monday, August 18.
