President John Dramani Mahama has assured Ghanaians that every region in the country will benefit from his government’s flagship Big Push infrastructure programme, which was launched on Tuesday, September 16, 2025.
According to President Mahama, the Big Push programme will open up economic opportunities, improve food distribution networks, and make travel between regions and districts easier, while also boosting industrial growth.
Speaking at the first launch of the programme at Afienya in the Greater Accra Region, President Mahama explained that the initiative is designed to modernise Ghana’s road network and strengthen national connectivity.
“From January 7, we have been designing road projects across the length and breadth of the country. The Big Push touches all 16 regions of the country. Every region is going to benefit from its share of the Big Push programme,” he said.
Outlining the priorities of the initiative, the President noted that the first focus is on inter-regional roads linking regional capitals.
“Our priority was to take roads that connect one regional capital to another. We believe that it should be easy for people to travel from one capital to another, for example, from Accra to Ho, or Accra to Cape Coast,” he explained.
The second priority, he added, is roads linking district capitals. “We have 261 districts in Ghana, and we believe that districts that are close should have good roads linking their district capitals to each other,” President Mahama said.
The third priority is road infrastructure in food-producing and industrial manufacturing areas.
“We selected all the major food-growing areas in the country, looked at the roads in those areas, and added them to the Big Push,” he stated.
Source: CNR
