Thursday, 4 August 2016

PARLIAMENT APPROVES 37MILLION DOLLAR LOAN FOR CONSTRUCTION OF OBESTEBI INTERCHANGE



 Parliament has approved the contracting of two loan facilities  totally 37 million dollars for  the construction of an interchange at the Obestsebi Lamptey circle, near the Kwame Nkrumah interchange in Accra.

 The Chairman of the Finance Committee, James Afedzi said the Obetsebi-Lamptey gets flooded during the rainy season due to the poor drainage system around it. He said the construction of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange will significantly improve traffic flow but the size of road around the round about. 

The construction is thus meant to avert the potential threat of traffic jams around there. 

The facilities will be contracted from HSBC Bank Plc of the UK. IT consists of a 22 million dollar supported credit agreement and a 17 point two milion dollar commercial credit agreement.

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