A 300-meter “suspension bridge” across the Volta Lake which is parcel of the Tema/Mpakadan eastern rail silhouette is approaching completion according to Yaw Owusu, Chief Executive official (CEO) of Ghana Railway enlargement Authority.
Overall, the 97 kilometer Tema/Mpakadan stretch estimated to fee not quite “half a billion dollars” forms role of an ambitious railway make contacts considered by head Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo dispensation and projected to be 500 kilometers in every by the terminate of 2024.
In an interview with Diaspora Weekly, Yaw Owusu plus discovered that this is the earliest time since liberty that a combined rail revolution has been embarked upon by any administration.
“During the grand times, the rail diligence was thriving,” thought Yaw Owusu. “But job grand times, Ghana put the brakes on maintenance an investment” in the railway productiveness primary to its demise.
Owusu additional keen out that “throughout history, railway is the root of any socio-economic transformation where you go.”