The Ministry of Roads and Highway has denied claims that road maintenance works are being undertaken with inferior materials.
The Roads Ministry has received lots of criticism for failing to effectively maintain roads in the country, with residents of several towns across the country, demonstrating to express their displeasure.
Some concerns have been raised regarding the quality of materials used by contractors employed to fix the roads.
However, according to the Deputy sector Minister, Isaac Agyei Mensah, the right materials are being used for the maintenance of the roads.
“We don’t use bitumen in concrete [to maintain the roads]. We have asphalt and asphalt fits very well with our appropriate application of chemicals, into what is in here,” he said.
Mensah blamed the complaints from people on their limited knowledge of normal procedure saying, ” if people say it is bitumen, I don’t think that they are aware of the technicalities and the mechanisms in [road maintenance].”
The recent heavy rains have exposed several shortcomings in the maintenance works, intensifying the criticisms, but Mr. Agyei Mensah has insisted that the “appropriate and requisite materials were being used in the process.”
The Deputy Minister had earlier assured the public that “maintenance will be the government’s focus” and that the state of the country’s roads will improve greatly once the rains stop.
He told Citi News that plans were in place to intensify road maintenance works once the country was out of the rainy season.
By: Edwin Kwakofi/citifmonline.com/Ghana