President John Dramani Mahama has on Thursday announced that equipment acquired under the District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP) will be reorganised into regional mobile maintenance units to provide emergency road works in the regions.
The initiative, launched by the government in 2024 is set to empower Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) with the tools and resources needed to enhance road networks across the country.
The MMDAs under the programme, had taken delivery of state-of-the-art road construction and maintenance equipment to ensure that road projects were completed efficiently and to the highest standards.
But, in his maiden State of the Nation Address (SONA 2025) since he assumed the rein of the state on January 7, this year, President Mahama announced plans by the government to reorganise the DRIP Programme into regional mobile maintenance units to provide emergency road works in the regions at a time some of the roads in both the urban and rural areas were riddled with potholes and other road defects.
