Friday July 9, 2021, President Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has Commissioned John Dramani Mahama’s enviable Pokuase Interchange flamboyantly and opened to motorists.
Former President John Mahama secured funding, $94.8 million late 2016 for the high-standard Pokuase Interchange project partly from African Development Bank, ADB for the after all the drawings, feasibility studies amongst other things leading to the start of the project itself.
President Akufo-Addo who supervise the project to it completion, managed to convince the contractors to add the fourth-tier by removing the initial planned circle on three-tier.
Though the three-tier interchange has partially been opened, today’s ceremony by President Akufo-Addo was a formal gesture to fully open it to traffic. Work on the $94.8 million interchange began in 2019 instead of 2017.
The project is expected to improve urban mobility and form a nexus between the Eastern and the Greater Accra Regions.
It was designed to fit into the Central Corridor road infrastructure project, the interchange links Awoshie-Pokuase, Accra-Nsawam and Pokuase-Kwabenya-Ritz Junction roads, and also connects the Tema Motorway.
Feasibility study and preliminary work on the project including funding sources and parliamentary approval were made under the John Mahama-led government and was supervised by Nana Addo.
It is one of the model moves most Ghanaians have been yearning for from successive governments of different stock.
Former President Mahama projects like Pokuase Interchange, Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange, the ongoing Kaneshie Interchange and Kasoa Interchange were initiated by John Mahama from about Ghc 56billion.
This amount has also produced Tama-Motor way Interchange, railway lines from Tama to Akosombo amongst many other infrastructure projects in the country.
President Addo Daequan Akufo-Addo is yet to present to Ghanaians huge infrastructure projects his government undertook out of over Ghc 200billion loans he contracted in the last 4 to 5 years in power.
Source: nationaltymes.com
