{"id":202805,"date":"2025-07-19T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-govts-pledge-to-release-gh%e2%82%b54bn-to-contractors-commendable-lands-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:18:57","slug":"ghana-govts-pledge-to-release-gh%e2%82%b54bn-to-contractors-commendable-lands-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-govts-pledge-to-release-gh%e2%82%b54bn-to-contractors-commendable-lands-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Govt&#8217;s Pledge to Release Gh\u20b54bn to Contractors Commendable &#8211; Lands Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The announcement last Tuesday by the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwame Governs Agbodza, that government will by the end of this month release an amount of GH\u00a24 billion to pay road contractors is good news to many Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He disclosed this during a meeting with contractors, Municipal Chief Executives and road transport operators in Accra, and gave the assurance that stalled road projects across the country will soon resume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">According to the Minister, the amount forms part of the GH\u00a221&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180179.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement last Tuesday by the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwame Governs Agbodza, that government will by the end of this month release an amount of GH\u00a24 billion to pay road contractors is good news to many Ghanaians. He disclosed this during a meeting with contractors, Municipal Chief Executives and road transport operators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,14923,2141,45258,4508,4509,9837,10639,5941,257,6430,6011,254],"class_list":["post-202805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commendable","tag-contractors","tag-gh4bn","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-govts","tag-lands","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-pledge","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}