Accra-Kumasi Expressway will be Mahama's major generational project – Agbodza

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has described the Accra–Kumasi Expressway as one of President John Dramani Mahama’s major legacy projects in Ghana’s road infrastructure sector.

His comments follow the completion of right-of-way clearing along the entire corridor by engineers of the Ghana Armed Forces, paving the way for further preparatory work ahead of construction.

Speaking to Citi News, Mr Agbodza said the government would now concentrate on completing the detailed design of the project and initiating the procurement process to select qualified contractors for the construction of the expressway.

He described the project as a generational investment that would provide infrastructure capable of serving the country and future generations for decades to come.

“Accra-Kumasi Expressway is our generational intervention. We are going to be 70 years. The President’s vision is that we should do something so that the generations ahead of us will say that when we were also here, we did something remarkable.

“Dr Nkrumah and others did other things: they did the Tema Motorway, they did the port, and other things. We also must do something to hold our place in history on behalf of our people,” he said.

The Minister said the completion of the right-of-way clearing represented a significant milestone towards the realisation of the expressway.

He said attention would now shift to finalising the project’s design and advancing the procurement process, after which construction works would commence.