{"id":4681,"date":"2022-09-28T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:33:11","slug":"govt-to-fix-major-highways-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/govt-to-fix-major-highways-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t to fix major highways in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Roads, and Highways, Mr. Kwasi Amoako-Atta has indicated the government\u2019s preparedness to fix major highways in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it was the intention of the government to dualize the highways in a bid to ease traffic congestion and facilitate the movement of goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amoako-Atta gave the assurance when he toured parts of the Western Region to inspect on-going works on some major highways.<\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by the Western Regional Minister, Mr. Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, Chief Directors at the Ministry of Roads and Highways and Urban Roads Department in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister first inspected on-going works on the Takoradi to Sekondi dual carriage asphaltic road, the Agona-Tarkwa road, the PTC interchange which are at various stages of completion.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the consultant, Mr. Charles Woode, for the progress of work so far and impressed upon him, to do quality work.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister reminded him to ensure that property destroyed for the expansion was compensated for.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, the consultant assured the Minister of his resolve to ensure that the project was executed within the stipulated period.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Minister for Roads, and Highways, Mr. Kwasi Amoako-Atta has indicated the government\u2019s preparedness to fix major highways in the country. According to him, it <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/govt-to-fix-major-highways-in-the-country\/\" title=\"Gov&#8217;t to fix major highways in the country\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[700,540,701],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-western-region","tag-kwasi-amoako-atta","tag-roads","tag-western-reigion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}