{"id":203892,"date":"2025-08-03T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-road-minister-vows-to-retrieve-30m-from-foreign-contractor-for-no-work-done\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:47:54","slug":"ghana-road-minister-vows-to-retrieve-30m-from-foreign-contractor-for-no-work-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-road-minister-vows-to-retrieve-30m-from-foreign-contractor-for-no-work-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Road Minister Vows to Retrieve $30m From Foreign Contractor for No Work Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr. Governs Kwame Agbodza, has registered his displeasure about what he describes as unfair and lopsided contract terms involving a foreign contractor who was paid $30 million for road works after no work done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Minister during at interview at Joy fm, a local radio station in Ghana said the contract in question was signed under a suppliers&#8217; credit agreement supported by the Indian Exim Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He noted that such agreements usually allow foreign companies to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010408.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 Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr. Governs Kwame Agbodza, has registered his displeasure about what he describes as unfair and lopsided contract terms involving a foreign contractor who was paid $30 million for road works after no work done. The Minister during at interview at Joy fm, a local radio station in Ghana said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580101:24d9a195b97012e659e36b3da7db7ff8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[16274,258,256,14771,5169,4508,4509,5941,257,6869,7414,254,9639,6100],"class_list":["post-203892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-30m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-contractor","tag-foreign","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-retrieve","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vows","tag-work"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580101:24d9a195b97012e659e36b3da7db7ff8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203892","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=203892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}