The Minister of Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has urged citizens to actively monitor road projects and help ensure contractors fulfil their commitments.

Speaking to residents at Ndewura Jakpa Senior High School in the Savanna Region, he said some citizens have already been recording contractors’ daily activities on their mobile phones and sharing the footage on various platforms, including sending it to him and to President John Dramani Mahama.

He noted that this vigilance will help prevent contractors from carrying out shoddy work and stop them colluding with agencies to send falsely positive reports to the ministry.

"Today in Savanna region, everyday when you go to platforms citizens have decided to take their mobile phones and record everything that every contractor is doing, they have been sending it to president Mahama they've been sending it to me so if you are a contractor you can no longer conive with my agencies to send me a very beautiful report in Accra and pretend you are working.

"In fact they even tell me how many people on your sites on daily basis and I want to thank the public for this level of vigilance and I want to encourage all young people across the country do same with the every road projects that is in your community, own it, report to us, day and night tell us what is happening," he stated.

He added that citizens working with the ministry will help President Mahama’s flagship road agenda succeed and ensure the administration is recorded as having made the largest intervention in Ghana’s road network, revealing that currently over 2,000 kilometres of roads are being contracted.

He also contrasted the current government’s claims with those of the previous administration, saying the earlier government’s assertions about road construction were exaggerated.

"Tell us what is happening on your bug push projects in your communities, so that together president Mahama will go down on record as the person who made the biggest intervention on our roads currently over 2,000 kilometres of roads are being constructed.

"This is not fiction unlike what president Akufo-Addo did i Parliament when he gave one of his state of the nation address that he built almost 18,000 kilometres of roads, truth be told there's no record in our country that president Akufo-Addo actually even started and completed 100 kilometres of roads, it doesn't exist," he said.