The Minister of Roads and Highways, , has announced that the government is set to launch a large-scale road infrastructure programme in the coming weeks, warning cement producers to align prices with economic realities or risk being sidelined from supply contracts.
Speaking to the media in Parliament ahead of the Mid-Year Budget Review presentation on Thursday, the minister stressed that the upcoming projects would require large quantities of cement and that price fairness would be a key factor in supplier selection. "We are about to unveil a massive road infrastructure programme which will consume a lot of cement. "We shall be ready to determine that cement used for government projects should be sourced from sources that are cheaper on the market.
It's as simple as that," he stated.
Kwame Agbodza expressed concern over the high cost of cement, which he said directly affects the cost of public infrastructure and, ultimately, taxpayers. "The price of cement is directly linked to the cost of government projects and indirectly, it is the Ghanaian taxpayer who will pay for those projects," he said.
