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  • Govt reinstates funding for Tema-Aflao Highway project

    Govt reinstates funding for Tema-Aflao Highway project

    Construction work on the Tema-Aflao highway has recommenced after the Ministry of Roads and Highways assured BHM Construction Company Limited that the necessary funding for the project would be restored.

    During a recent inspection, Kwame Governs Agbodza, the Minister for Roads and Highways, encouraged contractors, including BHM Construction, to return to their sites, reinforcing the government’s commitment to providing the financial support needed for infrastructure projects that had been stalled due to the Debt Exchange Program (DDEP) introduced by the previous Akufo-Addo administration.

    The project had been put on hold since December 2022 when the debt restructuring initiative led to a freeze on several major infrastructure projects nationwide.

    BHM Construction responded promptly to the Minister’s call and resumed work on the highway, although they have also requested the government to expedite outstanding payments to ensure the smooth continuation of the project.

    Adrian Wilson, the Country Managing Director for BHM Ghana, shared his optimism during a press briefing on April 7.

    “We are happy to resume work on the Tema-Aflao Interchange Programme project, especially after receiving the government’s continued assurance regarding funding. This reassurance has given us the confidence to restart the work,” he said.

  • Parts of Accra drenched after heavy downpour

    Parts of Accra drenched after heavy downpour

    Movement of motorists was heavily impeded Thursday morning at the Kpone Barrier portion of the main Tema-Aflao N1 road due to flood waters following an early morning downpour.

    Some motorists and their passengers complained of staying in gridlocks between two and five hours before making their way out of the situation.

    Joy News’ Carlos Calony who toured the affected areas said the floods blocked the road in front of the Bel-Acqua Bottling Company where commuters virtually sailed through running waters.

    The main Accra –Tema Motorway did not fare any better, as the rains forced a heavy gridlock that ensured vehicles moved at a snail’s pace.

  • Lakpleku residents appeal for more standpipes for regular water supply

    Residents of Lakpleku in the Ningo-Prampram District have appealed to the Community Water and Sanitation Agency to provide the community with enough pipe stands to ensure that every household gets regular water supply.

    Lakpleku is a community located on the Tema-Aflao highway, a few kilometres from the Bundase Military Camp.

    Mr Samuel Narh, Assemblyman for Lakpleku, speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview, said even though the adjourning settlements have pipe-borne water, the community’s single pipe stand made it difficult for residents to get their share of water.

    MrNarh indicated that the entire area has only one pipe stand which residents relied on, and pleaded for two additional stands to help the residents in the community.

    He noted that water was being rationed in the district, and therefore the community received its share twice weekly, which he said made it difficult for residents to get water. When the tap is opened, residents form long queues for hours to get some of the water from the only pipe stand.

    The Assembly man said even though he raised the issue and sent a written request to the Community Water and Sanitation Agency, it was yet to do anything about it.

    Touching on other issues facing the community, he said a six-classroom block unit which commenced under the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) for the Djinahor-Lakpleku D. A. Primary, the only school in the community, has been abandoned.

    He said the project which was at its roofing stage has been abandoned for over six years now, and several questions raised on it by him at the Assembly have not yielded any result.

    Mr Narh, therefore, appealed to the government, Ministry of Education, corporate organisations, and individuals to help complete the project to accommodate the growing school population.

    Source: GNA

  • Former Three Town student who attacked teacher jailed 4 years

    A 19-year-old former student of the Three Town Senior High School, Gilbert Akakpo, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment with hard labour by the Aflao Circuit Court for causing harm to an ICT tutor of the same school, John Kwashie Akey.

    On Wednesday, August 11, 2021, the convict, Gilbert Akakpo, who was then a final-year Visual Arts student of the school, reportedly stabbed the teacher, John Kwashie Akey, with a cutter when the teacher attempted to prevent him [Gilbert Akakpo] from bullying some first-year students of the school.

    The convict fled the school following the attack but was later handed over to the police by his parents on Thursday, August 12, 2021.

    Gilbert, was, however, granted bail by the court when he first appeared in August and was allowed to sit for the rest of his final examinations.

    Appearing in court on Tuesday, 30th November 2021 the prosecution told the court that, the victim, John Kwashie Akey, sustained deep cut wounds on the upper part of his left arm as a result of the attack and has had to be sent to the Ketu South Municipal hospital where he was treated and discharged.

    In his ruling, the presiding judge, His Honour Joseph Ofosu stated that the court was lenient on the convict as a first-time offender.

    He, however, stated that the punishment was necessary to serve as a deterrent to other students who have no respect for authorities in schools.

    The convict is currently awaiting a COVID-19 test result before he is conveyed to the Ho Central Prison to begin his prison term.

    Source: starrfm.com.gh

  • Phase one of 17-km Tema-Aflao road underway after Akufo-Addo cuts sod

    President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday, October 25 cut the sod for the construction of Phase One of the Tema-Aflao road, in fulfillment of a pledge he made when he commissioned the Tema Interchange project.

    Once completed, this project will alleviate the plight of motorists traversing the Tema-Aflao stretch, and tie into the Trans-African Highway Project, from Lagos to Abidjan, with the current two-lane dual carriageway being expanded into a three-lane carriageway in each direction, he said.

    With commuters having to spend over four hours traversing the road along with the Dawhenya township, the President described the situation as “very unproductive”, hence the move by the government to address the situation on that road and other areas along other national corridors.

    The 17-kilometer road project begins one-kilometer east of the Tema Expressway Roundabout, incorporating mixed-use towns such as Dawhenya, and ends approximately 3km east of the Central University intersection.

    At the ceremony, President Akufo-Addo noted that the need to upgrade this corridor has been evaluated in the context of the overall Trans-West African Highway, in addition to the fact that this road serves as the backbone for a significant and growing coastal residential, economic and recreational population.

    Additionally, the Transport Infrastructure Framework of the Ghana Infrastructure Plan (2018-2047) recognizes some road sections as being critical to the socio-economic development of the country.

    The Plan, therefore, highlights that the development of these priority corridor roads will facilitate trade and movement of goods and services within the West African Region.

    He reiterated the commitment of the government to ensure the implementation of the declaration of 2020 as the Year of Roads, adding that more sections of roads across the country are being upgraded from gravel-surfaced to bitumen-surfaced dressed roads or asphalt concrete surfacing.

    The President expressed the gratitude of the government and the Ghanaian people to the British government for their continued assistance and support towards the construction of the Tema-Aflao road.

    President Akufo-Addo entreated the general public and all who, in one way or another, will be affected by the construction of this road, to observe the traffic management measures that the contractor will put in place during the execution of the works.

    Source: 3 News

  • Tema-Aflao road to be expanded into six lanes – Expert

    The Tema-Aflao road which forms part of the Abidjan Lagos corridor will be expanded from the current two (2) lanes to six (6) lanes, an environmental and climate climate change consultant, has revealed.

    “This means that the width of the road will take 100 meters with 50 meters on each side. The Lower Volta Bridge at Sogakorpe in the Volta Region will be expanded as well, “Mr Divine Odame Appiah told stakeholders at a consultation forum on the proposed construction.

    Volta Region residents give government two-week ultimatum to fix their roads

    The Ada West District falls into the ECOWAS’s Abidjan to Lagos Highway expansion alignment hence the engagement to discuss how its enhance the positive effects and mitigate the negatives on the people.

    He said, “The Abidjan – Lagos Corridor Road is a highway divided into three(3) Lots. Lot 1 is from Abidjan in Ivory Coast to Apemenim in the Western Region of Ghana. Lot 2 starts from Apemenim to Akanu in the Volta Region of Ghana and Lot 3 falls from Akanu to Lagos in Nigeria. PEARL Consultancy has been awarded Lot 2.

    We are therefore here to gather information to do what we call scoping reports to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ” He explained

    According to him, “There are five Regions, Western, Central, Greater Accra, Eastern and Volta regions with 14 districts in all which have been captured within the alignment of the exercise. Sege, Koluedor, Adokorpe, Kasseh and communities along the road will be affected in the Ada West and East districts.”

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    Compensation

    He said, “Because of this, ECOWAS will compensate owners of various properties that may be affected either in cash or in kind if only one can claim ownership of the said property with evidence of documentation, approved by the district assembly.

    This action is in line with World Bank and African Developments Bank’s regulations and Ghanaian laws which reinforce the fact that property that will be destroyed should be replaced or, compensation must be awarded to the owner.”

    Impacts

    Both positive and negative impacts were realised during the open forum.

    The stakeholders identified some positive impacts as, movement within and outside the district to other places like Tema, Accra, Abidjan, Togo and even Nigeria will be very easy and time saving.

    They said, this move will attract businesses to the district and will also boost trading activities, economic activities will improve and will reduce the rate of accidents as drivers will be comfortable when driving,

    Others expressed fears that prices of plots of land and rents would rise.

    They said the development would bring about kidnapping, child abuse and other malpractices by foreigners in communities along the road.

    Inputs

    The stakeholders suggested that education on the exercise must reach every corner of the affected districts to create proper awareness to the indigenes to prevent distractions during the exercise.

    Also, write ups on the exercise should be pasted at the various district assembly’s premises, church premises and even the community radio and information centres for clear understanding of everything.

    They also wanted the assembly to make property registration flexible so that everyone could have access to documents backing the ownership of their properties.

    Meanwhile, PEARL Consultancy is expected to finish their work in mid 2021.

    Source: ghananewsagency.org