Yesterday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo turned the first sod for the Yendi dual highway project in the Northern Region.
Andrade Gutierrez Construction Company of Brazil is building the 2.5-kilometer dual carriageway, which is a component of the Eastern Corridor road project and is scheduled to be finished in seven months. The Eastern Corridor project will span the section of the Oti Region from Bimbilla to Damanku, according to President Akufo-Addo, who announced this during a brief ceremony in Yendi.
The dual carriageway, he claimed, would enhance the beauty of the town roads in Yendi, the first 10 kilometers of which had already been asphalted. Announcing that the Yendi-Tamale and Zabzugu-Tatale roads would be built after they were finished, the President also stated that the Nayilifong Gukpegu roads would be asphalted.
He reassured the residents of Yendi that planning for the Yendi water project’s construction was nearly finished and that the Exim Bank of India was providing funding for the endeavor. By the end of the year, the contractor is anticipated to start working on the project. He claimed that the administration was making every effort to ensure that every area of the nation experienced progress.
The President anticipated advancements at the Saboba Agenda 111 project and the Yendi sports stadium complex. In addition to the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr. Akwasi Amoako Atta, the Ministers of Defense, Mr. Dominic Nitiwul, the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery, the Minister of Local Government, Decentralization, and Rural Development, Mr. Dan Botwe, the Member of Parliament for Yendi, Alhaji Farouk Aliu Mahama, and the Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Alhassan Shani Sayi.
The President was thanked for bringing long-lasting peace to Dagbon by the Overlord of Dagbon, Ndan Ya Na Mahama Abukari II. He expressed his hope that Dagbon would always remember him for bringing the country to peace and thanked the President for his guarantee that the government will successfully negotiate a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
A favorable agreement with the IMF, according to him, would put the economy back on track, ease suffering, and rein in the nation’s spiraling food prices.