{"id":239042,"date":"2026-07-19T07:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cagd-denies-claims-that-gh%c2%a211-billion-has-been-spent-on-accra-kumasi-expressway\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:22:25","slug":"ghana-cagd-denies-claims-that-gh%c2%a211-billion-has-been-spent-on-accra-kumasi-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cagd-denies-claims-that-gh%c2%a211-billion-has-been-spent-on-accra-kumasi-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: CAGD Denies Claims That Gh\u00a211 Billion Has Been Spent On Accra Kumasi Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Controller and Accountant General&#8217;s Department (CAGD) has dismissed claims circulating on social media that the government has already spent nearly GH\u00a211 billion on the Accra Kumasi Expressway project even though major construction has not begun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">In a statement, the department explained that the claim was based on a misunderstanding of government accounting procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">According to the CAGD, the Accra Kumasi Expressway is one of the government&#8217;s flagship infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170702.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 Controller and Accountant General&#8217;s Department (CAGD) has dismissed claims circulating on social media that the government has already spent nearly GH\u00a211 billion on the Accra Kumasi Expressway project even though major construction has not begun. In a statement, the department explained that the claim was based on a misunderstanding of government accounting procedures. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[4512,258,256,6495,46251,8117,7651,8794,54878,4508,4509,6597,257,254,21452],"class_list":["post-239042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-cagd","tag-claims","tag-denies","tag-expressway","tag-gh11","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-kumasi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239042","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=239042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}