Overreliance on roads is costing Ghana — Expert calls for integrated, multi

Associate Professor at the University of Education, Winneba, Prof. Enoch F. Sam, has called for the implementation of an integrated transport system in Ghana, arguing that the country’s overreliance on road transport has come at the expense of other options.


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