PHOTOS: See the 175.6km right-of-way cleared by GAF for Accra-Kumasi Expressway

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  • DKC 2 days ago

    JM...... NO SIZE...!!!!!

  • TRUTH 2 days ago

    We salute you our gallant soldiers.

    You have indeed become a cause for change, progress and determination.

    May the police, navy, and the rest of Ghana copy your amazing sense of purpose and speed in achieving this great ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 2 days ago

    I have the divine revelation from God to caution: I hope the NDC won't start this big project with intent to win the next election and leave it to waste largest investment, in case they loose the 2028 election, with a possibl ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 2 days ago

    Most politicians start big projects close to their second term elections with intent to use such big projects to lure or condition citizens for votes and if they do not win, then they abandon the project and waste public fund ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 2 days ago

    This should never be like the abandoned National Cathedral Project. Some of these abuses of public funds constitute one of the clear reasons why political appointments must be abolished.

  • Divine Ninja of America 2 days ago

    The use of armed forced for the construction is a great idea but should be the strategy to use soldiers of the Ghana armed forces to possible help manipulate the next elections or to use the military as a support in rigging t ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 2 days ago

    I know the military is discipline and they will do their best, since their mission is to help protect Ghana. I wish the military and Police will step in to help abolish the practice of POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS, if parliament re ...
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  • Frank Agyena -Karikari. 2 days ago

    This is a very good work by the Police and the Military. The Military must be put under very useful and constructive work like this and sometimes patrolling our roads at places where Armed Highway attacks and robbery. We just ...
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  • Jacob Zuma 2 days ago

    Not Mahama's administration That is NPP's ploy to deceive. They did that with the Konongo, and Ayinam by-pass on the Accra-Kumasi road including the Suame interchange and the Kumasi Airport--hiring ethiopian airline to lad th ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 2 days ago

    Gaf construction and real estate should form their own private company and charge the govt, private citizens regions etc revenue for completing projects..very soon gaf will build a. CaR manufacturing company and list the comp ...
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  • NzemaK- Fix Dixcove Sankor Cape3pts Rd Now 2 days ago

    So you are saying that if ndc losses the next election to npp they will as usual abandon this important project. Woow

  • SAEED OSMAN 2 days ago

    I thought NPP MPs from Ashanti region said it is a waste of money and that it can never be done. . What the criminal gang forget is that unscrupulous Nana Addo is NOT Mahama.

  • KYB 1 day ago

    Can't you be decent and respect yourself for once and speak your mind without insults. It shows the type of upbringing you got from your parents

  • HANS 2 days ago

    If the government wants this project to be completed within the time stipulated then the 48 engineers regiment must be part of it either by partnering the consultants or the construction engineers/contractors. They would brin ...
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  • Yaaaa 2 days ago

    Hehe hehe. Tweaaaa. You are joking. They won't be part for obvious reasons. Saaa!

  • Solo Pobee 2 days ago

    I fully support, Hans.

  • Paapa 2 days ago

    Agreed wholeheartedly with you on GAF to partner with you any contractor choose to work on this project .

  • Santom Nana 2 days ago

    I have a question please. What happened to the trees pulled down during this clearing exercise? Were there gold mined during the process?

  • Diakite 2 days ago

    You yourself is fully aware of the mischief in your question. As it is, you may have to go and ask your father.

  • Hik 2 days ago

    Ask ur father and grandfather father's. Stupid

  • Fiifi Acquah 2 days ago

    Your Excellency President John Dramani Mahama your name will forever be on our lips if this road is completed by the end of your final term in office , please do not let it be like the affordable house President Kuffour left ...
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  • Gameli Noviwo 2 days ago

    JDM is a true nation builder, unlike others who specialize in pulling down well-functioning buildings or abandoning projects commenced by their predecessors. JDM, please show them and prove to them that you are a true Mr Do-M ...
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  • Fred 2 days ago

    Piercing the heart of the NPP stronghold. Bueeeiii

  • Titus 2 days ago

    Handover what ? Isn’t the project already in the hands of the Ghana government, so what is all this expenses for ? Why don’t we just leave it for the military to simply begin the main construction of the road , rather tha ...
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  • Phil 2 days ago

    State resources were used to organized a funeral for someone who is not related to Ghana in anyway but you were mute

  • Hik 2 days ago

    Phil he wasn't mute. Shut up. You sheep

  • kelewele 2 days ago

    Substandard and mediocre road construction with no proper planning and zoning. This road will start having potholes in less than a year after completion. A useless country with a useless government that does not upgrade their ...
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  • Drake 2 days ago

    Hahahahahaha...... see them ooo! THE DISCIPLES OF LUCIFER.... (the NPP monsters) have already started manufacturing what they will use to criticize this wonderful project. Don't be surprised if you see them holding a press co ...
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  • Kobby Mens 2 days ago

    Why are you npp people so evil? Naysayers who will never wish the country well. Aah this is disgusting!!

  • Jefie 2 days ago

    This project is marvelous one that the Ashantis have to embrace cos it will help for transportation from Accra to Kumasi and the environs yet some foolish Ashantis in the Npp have grossly opposed it how can people be born and ...
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  • Yvonne nelson 2 days ago

    So is this new road having any river cross it

  • Zakarakis 2 days ago

    Yes. President Mahama is Kwame Nkrumah N0 2. No doubt about it.

  • Frank Agyena -Karikari. 2 days ago

    No, Kutu Acheampong who came to meet no money like Nkrumah who met much money left by the British. You might be very young but go to the various Regional Capitals and find out the much that Kutu Acheampong did for Ghana. Do y ...
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  • GHANA 2 days ago

    Go back to history. You are never well informed. How many times did Boakye Djan call the International Community to investigate. Only he was ignored because he Boakye Djan made the coup. And instead of leading took the pos ...
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  • Observer 2 days ago

    Major Ampofo said when Kutu and Utuka were murdered Boakye Djan came to see them at nsawam panicking that things are going out of control. You can't agitate and then panick after so it was the one who butchered Giwah and trie ...
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  • Dr. Spider 2 days ago

    Honestly, this project is wholly a wanted show case by Mahama. The needed are ignored. A wanted project of the sort by a single being would automatically be abandoned by the next administration to render it waste of money.
    ...
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  • Osuro 2 days ago

    This is putting the GAF to good use. We spend tax payers money training and paying them and yet ghana doesn't go to war with any country. Apart from peace keeping in other countries which they gat paid more for, we just keep ...
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  • Hahahaha 2 days ago

    Bravo GAF. Bravo JDM....

  • Prophet 2 days ago

    Better use of of the GAF than pounding fufu in Cecilia Dapaahs house. Ministers stealing from our coffers got men assigned to them as well. It's time all Ghanaians think about Ghana and not this party or the other.

  • Fire 2 days ago

    Yesterday politicians. 1. Which minister loaded three trunks full of fiscal cash under his bed for some to be taken by his guards. 2. Which minister loaded his car boot full of money for the washing bay group to take as much ...
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  • Al 2 days ago

    If the Mahama Government successfully complete this project,NDC Government will be in power for a long time to come.Bravo to NDC for even taking the initiative.

  • Yak 2 days ago

    Let them finish the express way and leave the rural areas roads and other infrastructure unattended to and see how they would win power. You think Ghana is just Accra to Kumasi Expressway.

  • Phil 2 days ago

    But they constructing other roads as well or you didn't know

  • Nonsense 2 days ago

    Is only undetvNDC that machetes are used t o contract expresd way

  • Kwame 2 days ago

    A law must be passed to stop encroachment, illegal junctions and buildings. The public must be restricted or prohibited from developing on the right-of-way, otherwise this new road will become another Tema Motorway.

  • Nii Ghana 2 days ago

    This is what Visionary leaders do. JM is a Visionary Leader.

  • Kwame Owusu 2 days ago

    Good work done. JM all the way. May the good Lord see to the completion of this massive Infrastructure Project

  • Ohenenana asiedu. 2 days ago

    Oseade3yo!!

  • Kojo poku-London UK 2 days ago

    I do NOT support any party NPP or NDC but I am a patriotic Ghanaian and I want Ghana and Africa to unite and trade together to realise economies of bulk purchases and discounts for the betterment next generation and future ge ...
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  • Bb 2 days ago

    Just open the existence one to save cost and continuation from where is single lane to three lane road each side will be best.

  • Basic Algebra 2 days ago

    Visionary leadership

  • He who knows 2 days ago

    My people are quite funny sometimes . You are having a problem completing a simple road from pokuase to nsawam junction with red dust all over the place and you talk about starting and completing a huge road from Accra to Kum ...
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  • Game Changer +447935009178 2 days ago

    @He who knows NOTHING!

    IF you were sensible, you would've realised how hollow you sounded.

  • He who knows 2 days ago

    Look at you, calling yourself a game changer, what game are you changing apart from playing games with stupid words. You can't even understand common sense reasoning. You are struggling with a very short distance road yet you ...
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  • Owusu 2 days ago

    Are you playing politics or you're just an idiot? This is 90% completed. Which part of the road have you seen dust lately.? Some of you guys need to have your brains checked

  • He who knows 2 days ago

    How long has this tiny stretch of road taken? more than 2 years and still counting. You are describing yourself. By the way, the road is not 90% complete. I drive on this road at least 2 times a week and yes, there is still d ...
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  • ERLING OWUSU 2 days ago

    JM RESETTING GHANA

  • Kojo 2 days ago

    Hope after the construction, settlements would spring up only for roads to be ramped

  • Kwakye Busia 2 days ago

    If infrastructure development in Ghana can be facilitated so quickly by the Armed Forces, then excuse me, what have previous Ghana governments been doing? It is so unfair for previous governments to deny Ghanaians the opport ...
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  • TMA Building Permits process is disrespectfull and Corrupt 2 days ago

    Has anyone applied for a building Permit at the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA)? After paying hard cash to obtain the building permit, applicants are subjected to very disrespectfull and corrupt processes at the Works depart ...
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  • Juy 2 days ago

    great great great...

    but I SEE so many trees have been sacrificed....

    And all the other trees along this new road most likely will be cleared within 10 years of the completiton of the project....to give way for filling ...
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  • Eric Fynn 2 days ago

    Ghañaweb the adverts that pop up is too much. It didn't help the readers of your news. Aden?

  • Robert 2 days ago

    Please what is the state of the Northern corridor road? Am just asking

  • Knowledge 2 days ago

    President John Mahama has become a force to be reckoned with. He has become the best president Ghana has ever had after Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. May God protect him and shield him from all evil forces.

  • ABK 2 days ago

    Propaganda project. Mahama should improve the existing highway. Speedly clearing and handing over mud road is no achievenent.

  • Philla philla 2 days ago

    Now his failed and campaign promise of 24 hours economy now changed to big push and 24 hours market. Mahama is truly a clueless and incompetent president

  • Lopez 2 days ago

    Why's the media not telling Ghanaians how much it's costing the taxpayer for this military construction of this super highway. We want to know how much it would have cost the country if a private company had constructed it. N ...
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  • Kojos 2 days ago

    Is that ghana need now. Confused party NDC.

  • Kwakuvi 2 days ago

    Good, on condition that it's starting point and completion may not start during the campaign time

  • Kojos 2 days ago

    What is the state of the bypass. Ghana is good for nothing. The leaders today are trash. How much has so far spent on those bypass. Dump ghanaian journalist can no find out only noise with dust road they are good to report. ...
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  • Nana 2 days ago

    Great news

  • ChrisDag 2 days ago

    God bless President Mahama

  • Alex 2 days ago

    If you have an intention to build a house and you mold blocks you don't begin to celebrate because you have built a house. This is because you have a very long way to go.
    Mahama should exercise patience because clearing the ...
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  • Fifi Afriyie 2 days ago

    A good intention, but make sure Sammy Gyamfi, Samuel Okudgeto and Sam George don’t go near it.

  • Mike 2 days ago

    There's no need for ceremony, Mr. President we support you for this project but this one is not needed

  • Kwame 2 days ago

    Who is responsible for the busted Cocaine????

  • I know 2 days ago

    Expressway vs Railway. Which one could have been better for us as a country. A Rail line from Accra straight to Kumasi, think about it

  • Kwadwo Owusu Acheaw 2 days ago

    When you buy a plot of land to build a house and you uproot farmers' cassava from it, it doesn't mean you have built a house.

  • Maame Abenah 2 days ago

    Accra-Kumasi Expressway is a white elephant in the making. The NDC government is wasting Ghana's resources. The NPP under Kufour started this highway, and Mahama NDC came, followed by Nana Akufo-Ado's NPP government, and now ...
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  • Tosh 2 days ago

    This should remain a strategic corridor, for road and rail all the way to Tamale and beyond. Clear buffers zones on either sides, devoid of human activity shoud be demarcated, and strictly maitained. No chop bars, hawkers, k ...
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  • EBBY 2 days ago

    It’s unbelievable that we are constructing a highway in the middle of nowhere, no towns in between and no connecting roads to major cities and towns. Nowhere in the world do we have a highway passing through over hundred mi ...
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  • Aba Ghana 2 days ago

    The job is far from complete. For an Express Way we have a long way to go.

  • Okodieba 2 days ago

    This is a commendable effort. The government should kindly let Ghanaians know how much has been spent so far. Thanks

  • Obroniba 2 days ago

    This one is far much better than that useless big hole over there. Now we have an intelligent President. God bless JDM

  • Kobina Ebo 1 day ago

    GOD IS OUR HELPER IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. GHANAMAN REMAIN BLESSED.

  • K .Tsin. 11 hours ago

    The width of the road can also accommodate a rail line. The government should consult the Chinese for a bot contract and Ghanaians will never forget it's benefits.