He said contractors will be on the ground working on the roads starting early next year.
President John Dramani Mahama commenced a two-day visit to the Savannah Region on Friday, May 22.
Addressing a gathering in Sawla, he said that he commissioned the start of the Big Push project several months ago.
Since then, he said, work is going on on about 2,000 kilometres of roads all around the country, all at the same time, all paid with Ghana’s own resources.
” We are paying for all those roads ourselves,” he said.
There is a second phase that they are scoping, he said.
It will be announced by the Minister of Finance when he presents the budget in November this year to Parliament, he stated.
” I can assure the chiefs and my fathers that your roads are contained in the Big Push project for next year. You will hear it will be announced in the budget in November.
” Early next year, we will have the contractors on the ground working on the roads.”
