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The Minister for Roads and Highways has revealed that Ghana has about seventy-four thousand kilometres of roads to be constructed to meet the demands of the citizenry.

He said, these are a total of roads including highways and urban roads in the country waiting to be constructed.

According to him, all the needed assessments have been done and construction will commence soon as the president has given his preparedness for the construction of roads in the country.

Kwasi Amoako-Atta said the country needs this level of roads to be constructed before being described as a country with good roads in the sub-region.

He said many Ghanaians are yearning for good roods but it is not an easy task for the country to achieve this.

He claimed that good roads may sound good but good roads can be deadly if people are not well educated on how to use it.

‘’When the roads are good, people turn to over speed on them thereby creating additional problems for the country but when the roads are bad they turn to be a little cautious when driving on it,’’ he said.

The Minister made these comments when he joined the Minister of Inner City and Zongo Development and Member of Parliament for Madina; Alhaji Abubakar Saddique Boniface to assess some bad roads for construction in the La-Nkwantang Municipal Assembly of the Greater Accra Region.

He gave the assurance that the president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given a strong indication to have all these seventy-four thousand kilometres of the country’s roads fixed.

And very soon Ghanaians will see the roads being constructed going into the next tenure of the president before the Vice president Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia takes over from him (the president) he teases.