Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Alhassan Suhuyini, has assured that the Accra–Kumasi Expressway will be completed by December 2027 despite concerns about the scale of the project. He emphasised that the government is determined to meet the deadline, noting that key obstacles to construction have already been addressed.
“We have marching orders from the President to deliver this route by the end of December 2027, and we are working towards it,” Mr. Suhuyini said on Eyewitness News on Friday, September 18, 2026. He explained that the government’s confidence stems from progress made, particularly the rapid clearance of the right-of-way.
The Ghana Armed Forces completed the clearance of a 175.6-kilometre corridor in just 19 weeks—one week ahead of schedule. The cleared stretch runs from Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region to Sewua in the Ashanti Region.
The proposed expressway, spanning approximately 198.7 kilometres, will be a six-lane controlled-access highway linking Accra and Kumasi. Mr. Suhuyini urged the public to have confidence in the project, saying: “If you are assessing it based on the attitude of doing the impossible at once, then have confidence.”
President John Dramani Mahama has said $2 billion has already been secured in a special account at the Bank of Ghana to support the start of construction, with the government insisting the funds are domestic resources rather than borrowed money. He said the government had accelerated the preparatory work because of the importance it attaches to the corridor.
When completed, the expressway is expected to cut travel time between Accra and Kumasi from the current five to six hours to approximately two hours. The project is also expected to reduce the road distance between the two cities and facilitate the movement of people and goods along one of Ghana’s busiest transport corridors.
President Mahama has further directed the Ministry of Roads and Highways to engage the Ghana Armed Forces Engineers as a major subcontractor on the project, building on the military’s involvement in clearing the right-of-way. Mr Suhuyini said the government was therefore confident that the various phases of the project would be completed within the announced timeline.
The government has indicated that it expects to mobilise the full funding required for the project by the end of 2026, with construction scheduled to commence before the end of the year, subject to the completion of the procurement and contractor-selection processes. Mr Suhuyini said the availability of funding was another key factor supporting the government’s confidence in delivering the project on schedule.
“We have confidence that this can be done,” he said.
