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60% of Ghana Undeveloped — Unpaved Roads Are Death Traps

Ghana has an example for everything that is wrong in the world today

Tuesday, 4 July 2023

By: TB Obwoge

Ghanaian children are attending school under trees right now as you’re reading this. Nine Ghanaian children died taking a boat to school, in a small body of water, a foot bridge could’ve prevented.

Someone donated life vests so that these children can wear then now when in the boat to go to school.

Ghanaians are unable to drive on flooded, unpaved roads, right now as you’re reading this. Tanker drivers who deliver the fuel in Ghana went on strike because the roads in Ghana are so deplorable. There is so much that the $3.5 million USD could have been spent on, besides this memorial.

Ghanaians been protesting almost everyday for their roads to either be paved or repaired. According to a Ghana government website as of 2021 only 23–27 % of their roads are paved.

23% 27%*

Table 1: Ghana’s road network statistics (2017–2021) Descriptor 2017 Projected 2021* Network size 78,402km 94.203km* Trunk 14,583km 14.948km Length of network by road class Feeder 48.357km 50.775km Urban 15,462km 28.480km Percentage Paved 23% 27%* Percentage Unpaved 77% 73%* Road Condition Mix Good Fair Poor 39% 44%*