{"id":231123,"date":"2026-04-23T03:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gh%c2%a250-billion-road-push-between-promise-and-the-burden-of-delivery\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:49:58","slug":"ghana-gh%c2%a250-billion-road-push-between-promise-and-the-burden-of-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gh%c2%a250-billion-road-push-between-promise-and-the-burden-of-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Gh\u00a250 Billion Road Push &#8211; Between Promise and the Burden of Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s disclosure that government has spent more than GH\u00a250 billion from domestic resources on roads within 16 months is, without doubt, a major statement of intent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">It speaks to urgency, scale, and a renewed focus on one of Ghana&#8217;s most visible development gaps, the road network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">For many Ghanaians, especially those in communities where bad roads have long defined daily life, such figures naturally raise hope. Roads are not abstract policy issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604220765.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>President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s disclosure that government has spent more than GH\u00a250 billion from domestic resources on roads within 16 months is, without doubt, a major statement of intent. It speaks to urgency, scale, and a renewed focus on one of Ghana&#8217;s most visible development gaps, the road network. For many Ghanaians, especially those in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231124,"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":[258,256,6495,6766,8532,54241,4508,4509,257,11903,6354,7414,254],"class_list":["post-231123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-burden","tag-delivery","tag-gh50","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-promise","tag-push","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\/231123","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=231123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}