Akufo-Addo Almost Broke Down In Tears While Travelling With Me On A Terrible Road – Kwasi Amoako Atta

President Akufo-Addo was almost reduced to tears while on a road trip because of its poor nature, Roads and Highways minister, Kwasi Amoako Atta has said.

According to him, while on a trip with the President via the Hamile road, the President could not control his emotions because the road was terrible and called him out to fix it for the people living there.

See his narration below as reported by ganaweb.

“Nobody has ever said; nobody from government has ever stood anywhere and said that all roads have been done in our country. No! Nobody can say that. And neither has anybody said that we don’t have roads in our country. We have bad roads in our country.

“I traveled with His Excellency on the road to Hamile; a terrible road. And when we got to Hamile, on the platform – on the stage, I was privileged to sit next to him and Ghanaians are listening to me, and I’ve already said that I, Kwesi Amoako-Attah, drops anything from my lips that is not true…

“On the platform, after driving on the Hamile road; terrible road, when we sat down, president beckoned to me, and said to me, Minister, did you see the road we traveled on? The towns and the conditions of the people? I said, “Yes, Mr. President.” He said, When I sat in my car, I felt like weeping.

“He said he felt like weeping when we were driving on that road. This is the president of the Republic. And he said, that is why anywhere we go, I don’t want to go with a helicopter; I want to experience and I want to drive on the roads. I am directing you to work on that road.

Source: GhanaFeed.com