Africa-Press – Ghana. The Ashanti Caucus of Parliament has expressed discontent over the government’s alleged decision to reduce the scope of the Suame interchange project from a four-tier to a two-tier design, calling it a “disservice to Kumasi, the Ashanti Region, and Ghana as a whole.”
“The Suame interchange project was conceived as a long-term solution, not a short-term compromise,” Mr Francis Asenso-Boakye, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Bantama, stated on Monday.
Addressing an emergency press conference in Parliament House, Accra, on Monday, Mr Asenso-Boakye, also a former Minister for Roads and Highways, said: “Kumasi deserves infrastructure that reflects its national importance, not half solutions justified by selective constraints.”
The project, initiated under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration, aims to address severe traffic congestion in Kumasi, Ghana’s second-largest city.
The original design included a four-tier grid-separated interchange, overpasses, underpasses, and road widening.
The Caucus questioned the government’s funding priorities, citing the allocation of GH₵43 billion to road infrastructure and the approval of 64 new road projects.
“Why can’t a fraction of this amount be applied to complete the Suame interchange project as originally designed?” he asked.
As a result, the Caucus urged the government to restore the original design, reprioritise funding and engage transparently with parliament and the public.
