President Akufo-Addo has declared 2021 the second year of roads<\/b><\/p>\n Over 2000 people died through road accidents in 2021<\/p>\n Roads Minister urges motorists to stop overspeeding <\/p>\n The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has said the government is on course to fully dualise roads in Accra and Kumasi in the second term of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n Speaking to the media, the minister said that government had already engaged road contractors to ensure that the dualization is completed before the end of 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cOur determination is to fully dualise Accra and Kumasi within the second term of President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n \u201cWe should have either fully completed or substantially completed the Accra-Kumasi dualisation. I can promise the people of this country. It is on course and we are determined to do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Amoako-Attah who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Atiwa West, took the opportunity to advice motorists to drive carefully because a lot of lives are being lost through road accidents.<\/p>\n He cautioned motorists to adhere to the speed limits on the various roads so they avoid accidents.<\/p>\n \u201cI expect drivers to be very cautious, not only this stretch of road but wherever, throughout the country, on all the 80,000 km road network of our country.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t let us talk about only the commercial drivers. You and I are also drivers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah President Akufo-Addo has declared 2021 the second year of roads Over 2000 people died through road accidents in 2021 Roads Minister urges motorists to stop overspeeding The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has said the government is on course to fully dualise roads in Accra and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Minister](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/23553555.295.jpg\" "\\"Minister")
Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n