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| Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange was constructed under John Mahama administration |
The cost of one interchange under the
erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration is the cost of four interchanges under
the Akufo-Addo administration, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said.
Speaking at a ‘Town Hall’ meeting on Tuesday, August 18,
2020, he said this clearly shows that the NPP government has been prudent with
the little resource at its disposal, thereby, doing more infrastructure
projects than the previous administration.
The Vice President cited Tema, Pokuase and Obetsebi Lamptey
interchanges in the Greater Accra Region and Tamale in the Northern Region, all
at a total cost of $289 million comparing it with the $260 million Kwame
Nkrumah Interchange.
“I would just leave that for you to ponder,” Dr Bawumia said.
He observed that, for eight years that the NDC government was
in power, it could not complete one major road in three regions in the North
i.e. the Upper West, Upper East and Savannah regions.
But the Akufo-Addo administration in the first-term has seen
these regions having at least one major road.
Prior to the 2016 elections, John Dramani Mahama commissioned a redesigned Kwame Nkrumah Circle
interchange to ease the heavy vehicular traffic in the capital.
Dubbed ‘Dubai Interchange’, the three-tier interchange
included a 1.2km flyover from the then Busy Internet end of the Ring Road to
the Awudome Cemetery, near the Obetsebi-Lamptey Roundabout with street lights.
The phase one of the project cost €74 million whilst phase
two was at US$170 million.
In 2019, however, President Akufo-Addo-led NPP government
commissioned the redevelopment of the Obetsebi Lamptey Circle into an
interchange at a reported $39 million for phase one and $100 million for phase
two.
The $39 million of the project is a loan from a British bank,
HSBC, which was secured under the previous administration and approved by
Parliament in August 2016.
A one-kilometre interchange in Northern regional capital is
the first-ever in the Northern Region. This is being constructed from the
projects funded through the $2 billion Government of Ghana-Sinohydro Master
Project Support Agreement but Government indicated that it will cost $35
million.
There is also the much talked about $65 million Pokuase
Interchange project in the Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region.
This Interchange project comprises a four-tier interchange.
The Pokuase interchange is 5-kilometre, Awoshie-Pokuase Road is 2-kilometre,
Accra-Nsawam Road is also two-kilometre and the Kwabenya road.
Source: Ghana Web
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