Ghana Highway Authority earmarks 22.42 billion cedis for N/R roads

Tamale (Northern Region) 19 March '99

The Ghana Highway Authority has earmarked 22.42 billion cedis for routine and periodic maintenance of roads in the Northern Region this year. The routine maintenance works, which involves grading of gravel roads, provision of culverts, clearing of ditches and clearing of grasses along roads, is estimated at 2.8 billion cedis, while 19.62 billion cedis to be spent on periodic maintenance, would go into road rehabilitation, resealing and re-gravelling. Mr D.K. Sintim-Aboagye, regional director of the authority, disclosed this at a maiden "meet the press" series organised by the Regional Co-ordinating Council in collaboration with the regional branch of the Ghana Journalists Association to give departmental heads the opportunity to highlight their activities. He said the trunk road network for the region is about 2,690 kilometres with about 430 kilometres tarred. Mr Sintim-Aboagye suggested the need to redesign a number of roads in the region to accommodate the increasing traffic.