Pay contractors to resume Pokuase–Nsawam Road works – NPP’s Kamal-Deen tells gov’t

Deputy National Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Kamal-Deen Abdulai, has called on the government to urgently resolve the compensation issues delaying the rehabilitation of the Pokuase–Nsawam road by paying contractors to return to the site.

Speaking on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Monday, August 18, Alhaji Kamal-Deen stressed that the matter requires urgent attention and should not be reduced to partisan debate.

“If the compensation is the issue, Ato Forson, you are listening. You have given GH¢4 billion to the Road Ministry; instruct them out of the money to pay the contractors GH¢300 million and let them go back to the site. This is a straightforward matter. Let us tackle it head-on and once and for all. Let us, with all respect, take politics out of it and look at technical issues,” he said.

His remarks follow a strike threat from the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) over the poor state of the Pokuase–Nsawam stretch. The union says the road has become a death trap, causing delays and accidents, and is demanding urgent repairs.

On Saturday, August 16, the union’s National Deputy Public Relations Officer, Samuel Amoah, told Channel One Newsroom that the strike would only be called off if contractors resume work on the road.

Mr. Amoah explained that the union had given the government a one-week ultimatum, which expires on Wednesday, August 20.

Meanwhile, Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwame Governs Agbodza, has disclosed that the government owes road contractors an estimated GH₵21 billion in arrears. However, the current administration is set to settle GH₵4 billion of the GH₵21 billion to enable contractors to return to the site and resume work.

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