The construction of the interchange was necessitated by the huge traffic jams that surrounded the Asafo market area in Kumasi.
The Kufuor administration in 2005 awarded the contract for the construction of the interchange to ease the traffic situation.
During the construction, it was re-designed to suit the muddy organic materials which were found during the excavations for building the interchange concrete basements.
[2] Money for the construction of the interchange came from the Government of Ghana as well as the World Bank, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Global Environmental Fund.
Though his submissions to town authorities on the matter were rejected, Baffour vowed to continue until the interchange was renamed.