Former minister for Roads and Highways, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has alleged in parliament that the government's Big Push programme on road construction has been highly skewed to favour certain regions.
He alleged further that the government has carefully designed the initiative to give priority to certain regions at the expense of the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions.
Contributing to a debate on the 2025 Mid-Year budget, he claimed to have carefully perused the list of projects presented under what the government calls the Big Push Programme.
According to the MP for Bantama, though both Greater Accra and the Ashanti Regions are densely populated regions in the country, contributing over 30% of Ghana's total population, the government has clandestinely pushed the two regions out of the Big Push initiative.
