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<\/a><\/p>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”zGvYKNzcsIAijDJ4AHTrVDyMPJAgvdhX”]The Eastern corridor road, which will connect the southern part of the country to the northern part, covers a distance of about 695 kilometers.<\/p>\n
Residents of beneficiary communities had bemoaned the slow pace of work on the project while urging government to put pressure on the contractors to complete the work on schedule.<\/p>\n
Recently, some residents in one of the beneficiary communities in the Volta Region, demonstrated to protest against what they described as bad road network in the region<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n Speaking to journalists after touring the Asikuma \u2013Nkwanta stretch of the project, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini observed that the contractors have taken the country for granted hence delaying the project.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen they realized that the Chinese money was not coming, instead of working and coming to establish the fact that we can\u2019t pay, they decided to wait to see whether we have money before they will do the work. We want to be serious and hard on them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t come, promise that you will do the work and when the work is granted, you will go to sleep and when they ask you, you will lie that you have not been paid. This is a priority project and we told them from the beginning. We want to have this project completed before 2016 either than that what are we going to tell the people?\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile a monitoring team has been established by government to oversee the speedy construction of the Eastern Corridor Road Project, which is expected to be completed by 2016.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n