According to a member of the Road Fund, Prof. Mohammed Salifu, enough money is needed to facilitate road maintenance works in the country.

He told Joy News’ Francisca Kakra Forson that the spate of unmotorable roads led to the establishment of the road fund.

Myjoyonline.com recently embarked on a project to educate and inform the public on how road maintenance especially, pothole patching has been milking the country’s economy dry.

Official figures put together by Myjoyonline.com revealed that some GH¢11, 408,756.4 million was spent on routine and periodic road maintenance alone in the Greater Accra region from April to June, this year.

A total of GH¢3,389,405.4 was spent on the patching of potholes on some roads in Accra, which include Tema, Ga West, Ga East, Ga South, Ashaiman and Adentan while desilting of the drainage systems in these same areas and Ga Central, amounted to GH¢1,214,714.0.

Both the pothole patching and desilting fall under the routine maintenance schedule.

The total cost of gravelling, surfacing and resealing of roads as well as drainage structures, which fall under periodic maintenance, also summed up to GH6, 804,637.0.

Although the huge sums of money and other resources being channeled into making the roads better for motorists, almost every road in the country has very deep ‘cut wounds’ (potholes) on them making driving uncomfortable.

Contractors are even exposed when the rains set in.

The rains erode the surfaces of patched roads which were shoddily done, leaving motorists, who are also tax payers to question the kind of materials used in the process and the quality of supervision