{"id":360766,"date":"2025-12-22T01:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360766\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:47:13","slug":"gh%c2%a21-billion-to-be-paid-to-contractors-owed-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360766\/","title":{"rendered":"GH\u00a21 billion to be paid to contractors owed since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/GH-1-billion-to-be-paid-to-contractors-owed-since-2017-President-Mahama-2014773?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38511492.295.jpg\" alt=\"President John Dramani Mahama\" title=\"President John Dramani Mahama\" width=\"295\" height=\"178\" \/> <\/a>President John Dramani Mahama<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1349\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Dramani Mahama<\/a> has directed the Ministry of Finance to release GH\u00a21 billion to contractors who have been owed payments by the state since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The directive was issued during a sod-cutting ceremony for the Sunyani\u2013Atronie\u2013Acherensua Road Project in the Bono Region on Sunday, December 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Mahama-orders-78m-payment-for-work-to-resume-on-Agona-Nkwanta-road-project-2014718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mahama orders $78m payment for work to resume on Agona-Nkwanta road project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have directed the Finance Minister, Dr Ato Forson, to release GH\u00a21 billion to settle debts owed to contractors since 2017 before Christmas. All the contractors will be paid, and the families of deceased contractors should also follow to receive the money,\u201d President Mahama said.<\/p>\n<p>He further encouraged contractors to submit their documents promptly to ensure timely payment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to urge contractors to hurry up with their certificates to receive your money. Your money will only be delayed if you are lazy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Government-owes-road-contractors-about-GH-21-billion-Roads-minister-1990841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government owes road contractors about GH\u00a221 billion \u2013 Roads minister<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Mahama also reiterated that funds have been allocated for contractors under the Big Push programme, which is aimed at reviving and completing stalled infrastructure projects across the country.<\/p>\n<p>JKB\/EB<\/p>\n<p>What Cletus Avoka said that made Otumfuo warn him over Bawku conflict:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President John Dramani Mahama President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Ministry of Finance to release GH\u00a21 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-360766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}