Ing. Kwabena Bempong, the resident engineer for the Ofankor-Nsawam road project, has declared that after a four-month halt owing to budgetary limitations, construction will resume today [Monday, April 7].
Following reports of frequent incidents linked to the lack of a footbridge and necessary road markings, the construction stop had sparked worries about pedestrian and vehicle safety.
Although the project was originally expected to be finished in July of this year, Ing. Bempong addressed the public’s worries in an interview with Citi News and said it will now take an extra nine months.
Now that funds have started flowing, we expect that there will be continuous work and if there is continuous work, even if we give him probably another eight, nine months after the July deadline, he should be able to complete the work. Because as I have always maintained, the heavy lifting has been done. The bridges, apart from the Nsawam bridge, most of them are over 90 percent complete. And so from Monday, we should see the contractor back on site.”
