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A road of death, a trail of promises: How Ghana failed the Accra-Kumasi Highway
Until promises become asphalt, concrete barriers, safe shoulders, bypasses, enforcement and functioning emergency systems, every new fatal crash on the Accra-Kumasi Highway will leave Ghana confronting the same question: How many more Ghanaians must die before a promise finally becomes a road?
In 2005, the government signed a memorandum of understanding with Arterial Roads Company Limited for the dualisation of the Accra-Kumasi Road under a public-private partnership arrangement.
A highway that has become a recurring crime scene The Accra-Kumasi Highway is not an ordinary road.
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