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Part of Ho-Fume Highway ready for
handover by May 31st
Dzolokpuita, May 12, Ghanadot/GNA -
The first 18-kilometer Ho-Fume road
from Taviefe to Dzolukpuita is to be completed and handed over
to government by the end of May this
month.
Works left to be completed are street markings, side grassing
and erection of road signs and sign
posts for towns and creation of
bus-bays.
Mr Anthony Benedict Lansana, Project Manager of the Rolider
Limited, the contracting firm, on Tuesday told
the Ghana News Agency
(GNA) at the project site.
The GNA noticed also that work such as land clearing and filling
towards Mile 23, about three kilometres to Vane, where
the currentcontract terminates, was also on-going.
Mr Lansana, however, said delay payments by government,
was affecting the company's effort to
complete the overall work on
scheduled.
He appealed to government to extend the contract to Vane, which
he said would facilitate the movement of foodstuffs from
villages and communities in the
mountainous areas to the market centres.
Initially the Ho Fume Highway was to begin from Sogakope on the
Aflao Accra highway through Adidome, in the North-Tongu
District to Ho; up the mountainous
stretch through Vane down to Fume on the
Kpeve-Hohoe highway.
Mr Lansana observed that the project had improved the social and
economic activities in the area as trade between the Ho
Municipality and communities around
has become a boom.
He said road construction employees have maintained a healthy
relationship with the local people.
President John Evans Atta Mills, during a recent visit to the
Volta Region, used the road to Dzolokpuita where he
declared that his government was
committed to executing the original stretch of the
project and therefore ordered that all bottlenecks be
brought for
resolution.
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