Roads Minister announces annual road fund allocation to all districts

Minister for Roads and Highways, Mr. Kwame Governs Agbodza has revealed that all districts in the country will now be entitled to receive yearly allocations from the Road Fund for maintenance and rehabilitation works.

The minister made this announcement in an interview on Joy FM explaining that the new development is aimed at ensuring equitable distribution of resources across all districts for road maintenance.

“You will notice that we have changed the Road Fund to Road Maintenance Trust Fund,” the Minister stated.

“We are targeting that over the period; we are aiming hopefully with resources to improve over 5,000 kilometres of road network.”

He reiterated government’s commitment on building “economic feeder roads,” that lead to various areas like tourist sites, cocoa growing communities, cash crops and food-producing zones

The Roads Minister said that the fund will be made to work like any other statutory fund such as the District Assembly Common Fund and the GETFund.

“What I tried to do was to say that the Road Fund now becomes just like any statutory fund that its allocation goes to Parliament from Members of Parliament. So every district every year gets an allocation,” he said.

He added, “There will no longer be a district that doesn’t see money from the Road Fund,”.

“Sometimes there’s a road that just needs maybe 100,000 cedis to patch some potholes to keep it going. But because we are not able to do that, the whole thing deteriorates, becomes a big gully and then cuts the road,” he concluded.