President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, fifth July 2022, cut the turf for the beginning of work on the development of the €500 million Manso-Huni Valley segment of the Western Railway.
Depicting it as the most noteworthy single speculation for rail improvement since Ghana acquired freedom, President Akufo-Addo showed that the task is supposed to be finished in 42 months or less.
Tending to the get-together at Manso, in the Amenfi Central District, the President lamented the way that one of the extraordinary misfortunes of Ghana's post-provincial period was permitting her rail line framework, created under pilgrim rule, to totally break down.
As per him, out of the 947 kilometers of pioneer thin measure rail network granted by the colonialists, scarcely 10% was functional.
For sure, the main expansion to the organization has been the 15-kilometer slender check railroad line, worked somewhere in the range of 2012 and 2017, from Sekondi to Takoradi by means of Kojokrom.
President Akufo-Addo noticed that, upon his presumption of office in January 2017, not entirely settled to change this measurement, due to his faith in the way that an effective railroad framework is basic to the advancement and success of Ghana, the explanation he restored the Ministry of Railways Development.
"The notable occasion associated with the present function is a vital piece of the series of infrastructural projects arranged to grow the arrangement of rail line administrations. Key among the rail projects, as of now on-going, are the improvement of another standard check rail route line between the Port of Tema and Mpakadan in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern Region. This task has arrived at a high level phase of consummation, and will before long be given over to Government for activity," the President said.
He noted likewise that the improvement of the Western Railway Line is on course, with the 22 kilometer segment of the line from Kojokrom to Manso continuing consistently, and booked for culmination before the finish of this current year.
"I'm more than happy that, even before the fulfillment of this segment, I am here today to slice the grass for work to start authoritatively on the continuation of development works for the advancement of the line from Manso to Huni Valley, which covers around 70 kilometers," President Akufo-Addo added.
The Manso to Huni Valley project incorporates the transformation of double measure tracks, among Takoradi and Kojokrom, from slender check to standard check. The development of another eight kilometer standard check rail line inside the Takoradi port to the Takoradi station, to have a persistent standard measure association from the Port to the Nsuta Bauxite Mining Site and different mines, will assist with working with the haulage and commodity of minerals.
These ventures, among a few others ready to go, which will begin soon, he said, "affirm the profundity of responsibility of my administration to laying out a cutting edge rail route framework in our country. Government is focused on tying down extra assets to finish the extension of the new standard measure rail network in the country, in accordance with the Railway Master Plan."
President Akufo-Addo recognized the Ministry of Railways Development, the Board, Management and Staff of the Ghana Railway Development Authority, and the Ministry of Finance for teaming up to raise the assets expected for the execution of the task.
The President likewise tended to a developing peculiarity that is impeding advancement and endeavors by Government in the rail route area.
"Aside from the exercises of unlawful mining, which is adversely affecting the improvement of the option to proceed, especially inside the halls of Manso and Amantin in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality, prompting the adjustment of undertaking plans and higher development costs, a few treacherous saboteurs in our networks have decided to take parts of the rail line framework, including the tracks. This is uncommonly stressing, and of incredible worry to most of us Ghanaians," he expressed.
President Akufo-Addo, hence, sounded areas of strength for an of caution to people propagating these crook acts that the law will follow all the way through, and the fitting authorizations and discipline will be properly distributed to wrongdoers.
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