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The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah has toured an ongoing 23-kilometer Dome-Kitase road project being undertaken by First Sky Construction Limited.

Speaking to the media during the tour, the Minister, who was highly impressed about the progress of work, said “just under two months of work, and with the level of world-class equipmentand human resource mobilization I have seen today, First Sky Construction Ltd is comparable to any world-class construction firm in the world”.

He emphasized that from his briefings with technical engineers from the Ministry, the feedback is that the construction is according to specifications.

Although the 23-kilometer Dome-Kitase road project is expected to be completed in twenty-four months, First Sky Construction Limited, the construction firm undertaking the project, has assured it will be completed within fourteen months.

According to Eric Seddy Kutortse, Chairman of the company, it will work assiduously day and night without compromising the quality and integrity of the project to facilitate human and vehicular movement.

“This project has 24 months duration, we are one and half months into the 24 months. Our assurance is that with the pace at which we are going, we are sure that we will deliver this project within 14 months, within 14 months we will have it done,” Mr. Kutortse told the Minister during the inspection.

Hon. Kwasi Amoako-Attah signed a contract with First Sky Limited, a local construction company in Accra, for the rehabilitation of the Dome-Kitase road.

The $35-million project will start from the Dome Roundabout in the Greater Accra Region and end at Kitase near Peduase in the Eastern Region.

According to a notice shared on the official Facebook page of the Ministry on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, the exercise is expected to start in August 2022 and is scheduled for completion in 24 months.

“The project starts from the Dome Roundabout in the Greater Accra Region and ends at Kitase in the Eastern Region. The Project, estimated to cost $35 million is being funded by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) and the Government of Ghana,” the Ministry announced.

“The Road will serve as an alternative route to Peduase and Akuapem enclave and one of the prestigious Universities in the country, the Ashesi University,” it added.

Barely two months after works began, Mr. Kutortse reveals the company has completed 97 percent of all land clearing while filling to formation is 15 percent complete, adding the excavation and cut to formation is also 16 percent complete.

He added that scarification and formation were 16% complete, 3% of 600*600mm U-drains had been constructed with 41 percent of pipe culvert also constructed.

“What we are doing currently is that, we are improving the vertical alignment of the road by cutting to formation and we have almost 250,000 cutting to be done and if that is completed the project will be almost 30 percent and per our programme, by the end of this month we will cut the entire road to formation,” he said.

He added; “Currently, we have also started the construction of U-drain, we’ve started also the culvert, we have only about eight culverts, we have constructed two already.” 

Other officials who joined in the project tour included Mr. Stephen Jalulah, Deputy Minister of Roads; Dr. Abass Awolu, Chief Director of the Ministry; Mr. Christian Nti, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Highways Authority (GHA); Mr. Roosevelt Otu, Director, Department of Feeder Roads and other Directors of the GHA as well as officials of the Urban Roads.