President John Dramani Mahama has pledged to fix the deplorable roads in the Upper West Region without delay.According to him, the assurance has become necessary due to the challenges he encountered while plying the roads during his campaign in 2024."During the campaign, we travelled on a terrible road network that has become characteristic of the Upper West Region. Work will begin very soon. In a few months, you will see contractors on all these roads,” he committed while speaking at a durbar at the Wa Jubilee Park on Thursday, May 15.President Mahama noted that major bridges, such as the Dambai Bridge, the Kyeiamanfrom Bridge, the rehabilitated Buipe Bridge, Daboya Bridge, and Yapei Bridge, will be looked at.President Mahama's visit to Wa forms part of his Thank-You Tour aimed at expressing gratification to traditional leaders in the area.The Upper West Region has since been the stronghold of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Electorates in the region voted massively for the governing party during the 2024 elections.Moving away from the Upper West Region, President Mahama revealed that the Big Push infrastructural program has been laid before Cabinet awaiting approval. President Mahama explained that once the government gets the nod, it will roll out priority projects, specifically in the road sector.He revealed the government's plans to construct an expressway enabling travelers to get to the largest cities in the country, Accra and Kumasi, in less than two hours.“Cabinets will soon approve priority projects under the Big Push infrastructural program. Understandably, a significant number of these priority projects will be in the road sector. These works include the dualization of major highways, including the Accra-Kumasi, Accra-Takoradi, and Accra-Aflao roads," he noted.

"We’re also designing a new expressway between Accra and Kumasi, which will reduce the travel time between the two largest cities in Ghana to about 2 and half hours,” he added.