{"id":114690,"date":"2026-02-09T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114690"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:27:33","slug":"roads-minister-rejects-minoritys-claim-of-downgrading-suame-interchange-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114690","title":{"rendered":"Roads Minister rejects Minority\u2019s claim of downgrading Suame Interchange Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Minister for Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has dismissed claims by the NPP Ashanti Caucus that government is deliberately reducing the Suame Interchange from a four-tier structure to a weaker alternative, describing the assertion as misleading and lacking proper context.<\/p>\n

According to the Minister, the redesign is a response to new infrastructure developments within the greater Kumasi road network.<\/p>\n

He explained that the original four-tier design was justified at the time because Suame served as the primary link between the Ashanti Region and the northern parts of the country via the N10 and IR4 routes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time of its design, it offered the only credible connection from the Ashanti Region to the northern parts of the country,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Agbodza noted that the construction of the Kumasi Outer Ring Road under the Big Push Programme has fundamentally altered traffic patterns.<\/p>\n

\u201cConstruction of the Kumasi Outer Ring Road will divert most of the traffic up north from the city centre. Suame will therefore require less capacity than previously projected,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

The Minister stressed that the proposed modification removes only the fourth-tier bridge due to excessive expropriation and compensation costs, adding that the adjustment would ultimately deliver \u201cbetter value for money\u201d to the people of Kumasi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Minister for Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has dismissed claims by the NPP Ashanti Caucus that government is deliberately reducing the Suame Interchange from a four-tier structure to a weaker alternative, describing the assertion as misleading and lacking proper context.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4973,270,1883,117,10,9,3524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asenso-boakye","category-kwame-agbodza","category-national","category-news","category-politics","category-popular","category-suame-interchange"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}