Majority of road contractors working on roads projects in Ashanti region have abandoned sites due to lack of funds –Regional Minister

Ashanti regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah has confirmed to Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II that due to government lack of funds to pay road contractors in the region, majority of them have abandoned the sites.

He stated that the government has awarded plenty road contracts in the region and if 60% of them is completed, Ashanti will be boasted of good road networks in the country but the government has failed to honour part of agreement.

Simon Osei Mensah made the confirmation when addressing the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs’ end of year meeting in Kumasi on Wednesday, November 15, 2023.

When the members asked him how soon will the contractors would return on site, the regional minister could not give specific timeline.

” Otumfuo and Nananom I can’t promise or give timeline because the issue has to do with money and the government doesn’t have it now. We can only pray for the best in the coming days’’ he replied.

I feel shame anytime I pass through these abandoned roads. How I wish I would have ended my term of with office with the completed construction of roads in the region, but all these have to do with funds,” he shyly added.

Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Francis Appiah