{"id":214391,"date":"2025-11-21T09:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-patrick-boamah-criticises-proposed-accra-kumasi-express-road-project\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:27:31","slug":"ghana-patrick-boamah-criticises-proposed-accra-kumasi-express-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-patrick-boamah-criticises-proposed-accra-kumasi-express-road-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Patrick Boamah Criticises Proposed Accra-Kumasi Express Road Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central Patrick Boamah has criticised the government&#8217;s plan to construct a new express road from Accra to Kumasi, describing it as a misplaced priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking during the budget debate in Parliament, he noted that the cover page of this year&#8217;s budget featured what he described as a &#8220;Photoshopped image&#8221; of the proposed express road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He questioned why government would focus on a new project when the dualisation of the Accra-Kumasi highway remains unfinished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210069.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>Member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central Patrick Boamah has criticised the government&#8217;s plan to construct a new express road from Accra to Kumasi, describing it as a misplaced priority. Speaking during the budget debate in Parliament, he noted that the cover page of this year&#8217;s budget featured what he described as a &#8220;Photoshopped image&#8221; of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214392,"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":[52915,258,256,36799,10162,10034,4508,4509,257,18522,6504,8487,7414,254],"class_list":["post-214391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accrakumasi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boamah","tag-criticises","tag-express","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-patrick","tag-project","tag-proposed","tag-road","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\/214391","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=214391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}