Tarkwa Road Will Be Completed – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has assured the Chiefs and people in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region that the reconstruction of the Apimanim-Tarkwa road will be completed before he leaves office.

The project, which started in 2021 at an estimated cost of 95 million Euros, is being undertaken by M/S Gabriel Couto-Rango Consortium, with funding from the Deutche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany.

The scope of the reconstruction of the 66-kilometre stretch includes concrete works which entailed building drains, pipe and box culverts.

Others are the application of bituminous prime coat, bituminous tack coat, asphaltic concrete binder course and asphaltic concrete wearing course.

Speaking at a recent sod-cutting ceremony in Tarkwa, the president said, the road is about 80 percent complete and that he would make sure it is fully completed and handed over before he leaves office.

“I have gathered that activists of the opposition NDC in the Municipality are saying that completing the project before my term is over cannot be possible. But I am assuring them that the road project and other developmental projects being undertaking by my administration in the municipality would be completed”, he added.

President Akufo-Addo urged the electorates in Tarkwa Nsuaem to vote massively for the incumbent MP, George Mireku Duker to continue the good works of the NPP in the area.

He also noted, that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is the best person he can hand over power to, when he leaves office. He then called for massive vote for the NPP’s flagbearer in the next general election.

“I cannot handover to someone I have defeated twice in general elections who even does not believe in our policies and programmes”, the President stressed.

—DGN online