{"id":141036,"date":"2015-08-06T08:44:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T08:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=141036"},"modified":"2015-08-06T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T09:40:08","slug":"mahama-to-commission-damongo-fufulso-sawla-road-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/08\/mahama-to-commission-damongo-fufulso-sawla-road-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama to commission Damongo-Fufulso-Sawla road today"},"content":{"rendered":"
Government has fulfilled one of its major campaign promises by constructing the Damongo-Fufulso-Sawla road.<\/p>\n
Successive governments failed in their attempt to construct the road which gained prominence in every national budget statement.<\/p>\n
<\/a> President John Dramani Mahama in his State of the Nation Address reiterated his administration\u2019s commitment to complete the project which was scheduled for inauguration on August 6, 2015.<\/p>\n <\/a> The road which is said to have cost $166 million was funded by the African Development Bank.<\/p>\n Two Chinese companies, China Waters and Electrical Corporation Limited and China Harbor and Engineering Limited constructed the road.<\/p>\n The companies completed the project and its ancillary facilities on schedule within 38 months.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Seventeen communities are benefiting from the other ancillary facilities such as markets, clinics, classroom blocks, teachers bungalows, public latrines and hand dug wells.<\/p>\n The beneficiary communities include Busunu, Fufulso, Jankura, Minpeasem, Larabanga and Kojo-Kura.<\/p>\n The road construction has improved the socio-economic activities of residents of communities in the western corridor of the Northern Region.<\/p>\n
\nThe road links the Northern Region to the Upper West Region and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n
\nWork on the long awaited 149 kilometer stretch road began on January 2, 2012.<\/p>\n