Tag: Road contractors
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MTN to sue road contractors for fibre cuts
Management of Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) has hinted of legal suits against private developers and road contractors who persistently cause damage to their fibre optic cables. This, according to the company, has become necessary after several engagements with the Association of Road Contractors, the Ghana High Authority, the Urban Roads Department and others to find…
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Gov’t begins payment of arrears to cocoa roads contractors
Road contractors who worked on various cocoa roads in the country say the government has begun paying them their outstanding arrears. They tell Citi Business News they have been assured of a 40 percent payment by the end of January. The contractors earlier gave government up to January 1, 2020, to pay all arrears or…
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Road contractors give gov’t up to January 1 to pay arrears
Road Contractors have given government an ultimatum to pay arrears owed them before 1st January 2020 or face their wrath. They have accused government of not fulfilling earlier promises to pay them. The contractors say all attempts to get the government to pay them their outstanding arrears have not been successful. Chief Executive Officer of…
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Government to release GH¢2.2 billion to pay road contractors
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has directed the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Ken Ofori-Atta to release GH¢2.2 billion to pay road contractors working on various roads in the country. Mr. Kwasi Amoako-Atta, the Minister of Roads and Highways announced on Monday in Sunyani. He was responding to a concern raised about the…
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Gov’t releases GHS43.1 million for GIMPA, Teshie, other roads
The Finance Ministry has given approval for the release of more than GHS43 million to various contractors working on selected roads in Accra, Volta and Eastern regions. A memo written to Controller and Accountant General by the Finance Ministry and signed by the Minister said the release of the funds will go a long way…
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We’ll demonstrate, close down schools after June 26 if you don’t pay us — Contractors
The Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors of Ghana say they will not just shut down all schools and class rooms they’ve built across the country, they will also embark on crippling demonstrations across all regions, if government fails to pay all monies owed them from 2016, by the end of June 26, 2019.…
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Contractors want law to back interests on delayed payments
Contractors in Ghana want government to pass a law that will enforce the payment of interests on delayed payments for public construction works. They argue that they are overburdened with high interest rates on loans from banks and often lose out when payments are delayed without interest. For instance, government’s indebtedness to road contractors is…
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Contractors demand payment for work on cocoa roads
The Association of Road Contractors is appealing to government to speed up the processes it is following, to pay its members monies owed them for the construction of roads in cocoa growing areas. In 2015, the erstwhile NDC government launched a one hundred and fifty million dollar ($150 m) project to improve road infrastructure in…
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Concrete roads to absorb Ghana’s surplus cement – Industry
Cement manufacturing companies in Ghana are appealing to government to quickly implement a policy which will ensure that all roads in the country are made of concrete. According to them this will help consume the surplus cement in the country as well as sustain their operations. Figures available from the cement monitoring committee show that Ghana consumes…
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Government settles part of road debts
Road contractors who are owed monies by the government should expect to receive payment of some of their arrears today, Friday 5th January 2018. This is according to the National Chairman of the Association of Road Contractors, Daniel Agroh. Government has paid over one billion Ghana cedis within the past 11 months to road contractors…