The government has disbursed more than GH¢1 billion from the Road Maintenance Trust Fund to contractors working on major roads across the country as of February 2026, the Ministry of Roads and Highways has announced.
The disbursement forms part of efforts to ensure equitable distribution of resources for road maintenance nationwide and to accelerate ongoing works on key road infrastructure.
Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the ministry, Francis Ahlidza, disclosed this during a visit by Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang to the ministry on Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
He explained that the government had restructured the former Ghana Road Fund to strengthen its capacity to support road maintenance and mobilise additional revenue.
“The ministry has also, through the support of the cabinet, changed the name of the Ghana Road Fund to Road Maintenance Trust Fund, to ensure that there’s equitable distribution of the resources for maintenance across the country, and then also giving it the power to be able to raise revenue from other sources,” he said.
Mr. Ahlidza added that the fund had become fully operational and had already begun disbursing payments to contractors after a validation process.
“And so this fund is in place now. It’s become operational. As of the end of last month, they’ve disbursed over GH¢1 billion to contractors after we have gone through some validation processes,” he stated.
Meanwhile, the government is also preparing to reintroduce road tolls using a new technology-driven system expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2026.
Mr. Ahlidza said Cabinet had approved the reintroduction of tolls, which were suspended in 2021, with plans to modernise toll collection across the country.
“The Cabinet has graciously granted us approval to reintroduce tolls after they were suspended in 2021. The aim is to modernise our tolling points nationwide to use advanced technology,” he said.
He noted that the new system would eliminate traffic congestion at toll booths and improve revenue mobilisation for road maintenance.
“The world is moving away from creating traffic jams just to generate revenue, and therefore, we are leveraging technology to reintroduce our tolls. It also helps the road fund in raising sufficient revenue or enhanced revenue for its operations,” he explained.
According to him, the government is pursuing a Public-Private Partnership arrangement to implement the project.
“And so we are going through the PPP route, trying to identify a concessionaire that will invest in the infrastructure for the tolling systems and then have some form of revenue sharing with the government.
“And we are in the procurement processes now, and we hope that by the third quarter of the year, this will take effect,” he added.
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