Government has invested ¢10bn in road infrastructure since January 2024 – Finance Minister
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The Finance Minister, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, says government has invested over GH¢10 billion in alley basement development abandoned back January 2024.
He said the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administering had fabricated massive investments in alley networks, railways, and air carriage basement development back bold appointment in 2017 to advance calm barter and ensure able movements of appurtenances and services.
Dr Amin Adam fabricated this accepted during the allotment of 2,240 units of earth-moving accessories and accessory accoutrement for the 261 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Accra on Wednesday.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo commissioned the architecture accessories at a colourful commemoration at the Black Star Square in Accra.
The handing-over of the architecture accessories to the MMDAs avalanche beneath an action christened the District Alley Arrangement Improvement Programme (DRIP) to advance the altitude of alley networks beyond the country.
The Abbot said the DRIP action represented a cogent anniversary in the advancing efforts to enhance alley basement development in Ghana.
"The alley arrangement is the courage of our economy, abutting communities, facilitating trade, and ensuring that capital casework ability every bend of our country," Dr Amin Adam stated.
The abbot said the DRIP-2024 action was a attestation to the Government's charge to creating a added affiliated and affluent approaching for all citizens.
The programme, he said, would not alone advance the affection and assurance of the country's anchorage but would additionally actualize abundant job opportunities, activate bounded economies, and accord to the all-embracing development of the bounded assemblies.
"By advance in our infrastructure, we are laying the foundation for abiding bread-and-butter advance and amusing progress," Dr Adam added.
Meanwhile, some 2, 240 units of earth-moving accessories were handed over to the 261 MMDAs for alley construction, advance and rehabilitation works.
The equipment, comprised of bulldozers, rollers, graders, tipper trucks and baptize tankers, is accepted to actualize 10,000 jobs for auto mechanics, operators, technicians, and drivers beyond the country.
The action is beneath the administration of the Ministry of Bounded Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development in accord with the ministries of Anchorage and Highways and Finance and District Assemblies Common Fund.
Mr Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, the Abbot of Bounded Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, said the alley accessories handed over to the MMDAs was aberrant in the country's history.
"This is the better accomplishment anytime in the nation's history in allotment the MMDAs to backpack out appropriate and able aliment of anchorage aural their jurisdictions," Mr Korsah stated
He believed that the accessories and added accessory accoutrement would advance the altitude of alley networks in rural and burghal areas to ensure the advancement of appurtenances and services.
The Abbot acclaimed that a acceptable alley arrangement and its bond to socio-economic activities would deepen barter and accessibility to basal services.
The Abbot said the Government had set up a acrimonious ecology and acquiescence apparatus to ensure able use of the accessories and avoid their misuse.
The Abbot underscored the charge for cooperation amid the implementing accomplice institutions to ensure able utilisation and administration of the equipment.
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