President John Dramani Mahama has said his government’s Big Push road projects will be implemented in phases.
According to John Mahama, the government cannot undertake all the country’s road projects at once because of limits to the available budget.
Mahama stressed that the government could not address the country’s road infrastructure needs simultaneously because of budgetary constraints.
He explained that the government had prioritised major trunk roads, particularly those linking regional capitals, before moving on to feeder roads that connect communities and towns.
Speaking during the first day of his two-day “Resetting Ghana Tour” in the Upper West Region, President Mahama stated, ‘Everybody thinks that we can do all their roads at once. We cannot do that. There’s a limit to the budget that we have”.
“And so there’s Big Push Phase 1, we’re scoping Big Push Phase 2, and there’ll be a Big Push Phase 3,” he stated.
“As we go, we’ll move from the trunk roads to the other feeder roads that link up with the trunk roads,” he explained.
He added, “But it’s good to do the trunk roads so that at least everybody can come from this constituency, join the main road, and have a good ride. After the trunk road is done, then we can now do the feeder roads into the communities and the towns.”
President Mahama also expressed confidence in the quality of work being undertaken on the Wa-Han road project.
“We’ll be here next year to come and commission the road, and I’m sure that the quality of the road will be good,” he said.
“After we do the double-surface dressing, we will then seal the whole road with asphalt from Wa to Bolga, so that at least we know that for the next 30 years, the road will last and will require just very little maintenance,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Roads Minister, Kwame Governs Agbodza, has disclosed that government has re-enacted the Road Fund to provide sustainable financing for the maintenance of road infrastructure across the country.
According to the Roads Minister, the planned Accra-Kumasi Expressway will also attract toll charges.
He added that motorists will not be compelled to use the expressway if they do not want to pay the toll.
Speaking at the 2026 Transport Sector Review in Ho, Agbodza stated, “We are taking steps to modernise revenue mobilisation through technology following Parliament’s approval of a 20-year public-private partnership concession in July 2026.
“The government is introducing a multi-lane and free-flow electronic tolling system, and this system will be implemented on every public road that has been improved.
“Every interchange in our country will attract the attention of road tolling, especially the Accra-Kumasi Expressway comes with its own tolling system. Contractors have started returning to the existing Accra to Kumasi bypasses, and in a few weeks all of them will be back on site.”
Also, Kwame Governs Agbodza has assured the World Bank that the John Mahama government’s Big Push Road project will not become a costly liability.
Kwame Governs Agbodza, in a post in direct response to a World Bank warning that the country’s US$10bn Big Push road infrastructure program risks creating major future liabilities without stronger maintenance reforms.
He outlined measures the government intends to implement to ensure roads and bridges constructed under the Big Push infrastructure programme do not become a future financial burden on the state.
The Road Minister disclosed plans to fully activate the Road Maintenance Trust Fund created by Act 1147 in 2025, improve allocation of Road User Charges with greater transparency, and reintroduce electronic road and bridge tolling to expand revenue.
He also disclosed that completed Big Push projects will use performance-based maintenance contracts backed by dedicated Road Fund resources, which will aim to replace the existing “build-deteriorate-rehabilitate” pattern with sustainable “build-maintain-preserve” practices.
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