Former President John Agyekum Kufuor initiated the construction of Cocoa Roads when he,on Friday June 27 ,2008 cut the sod for bitumen surfacing of the 15 KM Agona -Nyarkrom-Otsenkorang-Bosompa feeder road in the Central Region.
The project which was founded by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) under the cocoa roads improvement was an integral part of the 15-kilometre of roads per district initiated by Kuffour’s government.
The contract was awarded to M/S Sarawate Construction Limited at the cost of GH¢ 2,140 million and was supposed to be completed in 24 months. It was in three phases covering 600 kilometres of tarred roads in the cocoa growing areas. As to what happened to that beautiful project under 8-year rule of NDC, Ghanaians are the best Judges.
Akuffo Addo’s government has also introduced Bauxite Roads, now popularly referred to as the Sinohydro projects. What is outstanding about Akuffo Addo’s initiative is that, it is not limited to road construction alone. Other projects like construction of hospitals, schools, industrial parks, markets are also included. For face one of the project alone, 684.12kilometers of roads will be constructed, aside other projects.
This is the same bauxite that Mahama clandestinely,dubiously sold to his brother Ibrahim Mahama. It took the courage of Ashanti Regional minister Simon Osei Mensah to stop the Mahamas from unlawfully taking what belongs to the people of this country.
The NDC party did all they could to stop the government from successfully concluding the barter agreement with Sinohydro by writing to IMF that Ghana has contracted a loan from China. The only thing they wanted to achieve in this exercise in futility was to convince the IMF to force the government to add the $2billion deal to our national debt stock so they can gain political capital from it.
When they failed miserably to stop this deal from seeing the light of the day, they are now making noise that value for money audit was not conducted before the contract was signed. Now they have the temerity to talk value for money?. Did they ever think of value for money when thy were chewing our taxpayer’s money like gum? And did they do value for money audit before they sold Nyinahini bauxite reserve to Ibrahim Mahama?
Thank God we have records to tell them(NDC) that Sinohydro contract is not the only contract we sighed before value for money audit was conducted. I do not want to believe they don’t know this.
For, records show they never conducted any value for money audit before they signed contracts when they were in government. If you did not do value for money audit before you signed Circle interchange contract, what moral justification do you have to call for value for money audit in a barter agreement like Sinohydro?
We have Atiwa bauxite reserve sitting there. We still have 3 hills of bauxite at Awaso untouched. Nothing occurred to you to use them to expand the inadequate infrastructure in this country. Instead, you were greedy enough to sell the biggest reserve at Nyinahini to your brother, few days before you left the presidency.
Sinohydro has come to stay, and Mahama and his NDC can do nothing to stop Akuffo Addo to use our own bauxite to give us roads, hospitals, school buildings, electricity railway lines markets, industrial parks etc.
#Politicians are not the same.
#Say no to NDC lies and propaganda.
#NPP 2024 and beyond.
The writer is a tutor of French,
A blogger, and the deputy communication offiCer,
NPP,Ashanti Bekwai.
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Source: Piero
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