ROAD MINISTER INSPECT KUMAWU-WORASO-EFFIDUASE-JUABEN ROAD
The Roads and Highways Minister, Hon. Kwesi Amoako-Atta, has inspect the rehabilitation roads network on Kumawu-Woraso-Effiduase-Juaben in the Sekyere Kumawu District of Ashanti Region.
The project which would see the entire 20-kilometre road being done in phases, has been awarded to Joshob Construction Company.
Hon Kwesi Amoako-Atta, who disclosed this in an interview with the press when he inspect some roads works in Ashanti region.
He indicated that, the project would also include the Kumawu town roads, to be also asphalted with the first phase covering five kilometres (km).
” On two occasions I and the late MP visited the Paramount Chief of Kumawu, Barima Sarfo Tweneboa Kodua, to inform him about the commencement of work” The Minister said.
He mentioned that there was no political undertone in the award of the contract, adding that it was not because of the impending by-election that the project was being undertaked.
According to the Minister, the procurement processes of the construction of the road took off in 2022 and it was signed in February this year, before the demise of the MP.
The Minister appealed to Ghanaians to bear with the government in terms of road construction saying “it is a gradual process as all roads cannot be done at a go.” He added.
