By 81. One number runs through the Ministry of Roads and Highways' own contract list, and beside it, against every entry, stands one method: sole sourcing. No contest, no rival bid, no price tested against another price. The list carries 81 road contracts awarded between August 2025 and January 2026, every one of them handed out without competition by the Ministry through its three road agencies, the Ghana Highway Authority, the Department of Urban Roads and the Department of Feeder Roads.
The list is the government's own document, and an investigation by SecretsReporters of what it contains shows where the money pooled. Alkyro Jules Company Ltd took GH¢2,509,998,661 for a single lot of the Cape Coast–Takoradi dualisation. Kofi Job Company Ltd took GH¢2,548,264,577.91 across three contracts. Mo & Mo Company Ltd took GH¢2,782,439,590.57 across two. China Railway No.5 Engineering (Gh) Ltd took GH¢2,790,766,039.64 across four. E-Speedway Construction Ltd took GH¢2,890,514,550 for one rehabilitation, the Mankessim–Ajumako–Agona Swedru Road. First Sky Ltd took GH¢3,002,702,530.79 across two. Arab Contractors Ghana Ltd took GH¢3,091,352,101.53 across the three lots of the Kumasi Outer Ring Road.
Above them stand three firms. M.A & Constant Company Ltd holds two lots of the Winneba–Cape Coast dualisation worth GH¢5,738,497,713. S&L Construction and Engineering Ltd holds two lots of the Cape Coast–Takoradi dualisation worth GH¢6,427,865,085. Maripoma Enterprise Ltd holds six contracts: Tumu–Han–Lawra at GH¢90,639,575.32, Enchi–Kudjouru at GH¢410,236,050.39, Bole–Madarichache at GH¢649,103,309.06, Wenchi–Sawla at GH¢861,858,834.26, the Wasa–Wla dual carriageway at GH¢2,306,166,134.60 and the Dambai Bridge at GH¢3,989,560,929.14, a combined GH¢8,307,564,832.77. Between them, the three firms hold GH¢20,473,927,630.77 of sole-sourced road work.
The same list prices separate lots at identical sums, to the pesewa. Two Wenchi–Sawla rehabilitation lots awarded to CIWE Ghana Engineering Ltd are priced at GH¢475,345,120.73 each. Lots 1 and 2 of the Tamale 3rd Ring Road, Phase 1, are priced at GH¢873,575,035.81 each, and they went to two different firms, China Railway No.5 Engineering (Gh) Ltd and Sinohydro Corporation Ltd, while Lot 3, to Munisco Ltd, is priced at GH¢875,018,805.82. Lots 1 and 2 of the Kumasi Outer Ring Road, both to Arab Contractors Ghana Ltd, are priced at GH¢1,029,969,450.51 each, with Lot 3 at GH¢1,031,413,200.51.
One contract stands above every lot on the list. Construction of the Adawso Bridge was awarded on 30 December 2025 to SCL Sonitra Construction Ltd at US$497,664,217.34, in the region of GH¢5.47 billion, by sole sourcing. President Mahama has named Sonitra publicly as the contractor for the bridge. The figure is taken from the Ministry's official list, and it is the largest single award on it.
The 81 contracts sit inside a far larger book. The Presidency's own Big Push review report records 1,441 contracts awarded by the Ministry of Roads and Highways in 2025–26, and of the 140 Big Push projects it counts 66 single-sourced, 51 awarded by restricted tender and 23 inherited as sole-source from the previous administration.
The government's position, recorded in the same review, is that no provision of the Public Procurement Act 663 was breached. The Public Procurement Authority, asked under the Right to Information law on 16 February 2026 for the approval breakdown behind the Big Push awards, refused the request, stating that the Authority does not approve contracts. The list, its identical prices and its three-firm pile-up remain the Ministry's own record of its own awards.
