Work will resume this week on some of the cocoa road projects that have been suspended for more than a year.
The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Attah, revealed this at the Ministry’s strategic meeting workshop held in Kumasi.
The resumption of the suspended road projects follows the government’s directive to the Finance Ministry to release funds to settle debt owed contractors. A greater portion of an estimated One billion dollars has been earmarked for outstanding payments.
According to the Minister, Contractors of cocoa roads previously under the Agric Ministry will be paid first and made to start work almost immediately.
The purpose of the exercise, according to him, is to reconcile all the outstanding COCOBOD road payment and to identify other roads under the following agencies Highways, Feeder and Urban Roads.
All contractors working on cocoa roads will receive letters from the various agency heads starting from Monday.
The Cocoa Road Project began under the erstwhile NDC administration but was suspended in July 2017 by COCOBOD over discrepancies and financial irregularities in the awards of some of the contracts. Mr Amoako Attah said the Ministry has taken responsibility over all abandoned cocoa roads.
