The Sames limited, the contractor executing the 15-kilometer New-Dormaa-Yawhima-Kotokrom road in the Sunyani Municipality has resumed work and assured to complete the project within eight months.

There is a public outcry over the delays and the abandonement of the work on the project, which is among the critical and busiest roads in the Municipality.

Users, including commercial drivers and motorists as well as residentsalong the stretch said they were worried because the condition of the road had worsened since the contractor stopped work for months.

The aggrieved residents told the Sompa FM during a visit that they could not contain the dusty and muddy conditions of the dual carriage road during the dry and wet seasons and appealed to the government to facilitate the completion of the stretch

However, in an interview with Mr Samuel Kwabena Opoku, the Managing Director of the Sames limited, a Sunyani-based road construction firm, partly attributed the ‘snail pace’ of the project to delays in government payments.

He indicated the government had made some payments to contractors recently, saying “we recently received some payments from the government and that is why we have been able to resume work on the project”.

Mr Opoku commended the government for the payments and expressed the hope that the government would facilitate payments of its outstanding debts to empower and position both road and building contractors to complete for use abandoned projects spread across the country.

He also expressed concern about rising cases of theft and burglaring at its construction sites saying the problem was also slowing down and impeding execution of the road project.

 Mr Opoku therefore, called for cooperation from the residents and the road users, assuring that work on the project would be completed soon.

Meanwhile, work on the road project had been progressing for some time now.

During a visit, Sompa FM sighted drainage systems along the stretch were virtually completed, while earth moving machines were regraveling portions of the dual carriage road.

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