President Akufo Addo has insisted his government inherited poor roads that were through propaganda hailed by the erstwhile John Mahama administration as massive development infrastructure.
According to him, the reality was different when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) came to power.
Speaking on GBC-Sunrise FM in Koforidua on Tuesday, the President said, “at first we were made to understand that the roads have been done if you will remember. We were made to understand before I came in, that, the roads have been done. We have seen unprecedented infrastructure Development. And it turned out it wasn’t true. Across the country, the roads were in a very poor state. That is the situation I inherited.”
He added “I inherited both the Propaganda and the reality. The reality is what I try to deal with. Because roads cost money. You got to put the money together, you got to go through the process of selecting the correct people to do the roads.”
President Akufo Addo however noted that his government have tackled the poor road issue despite the huge infrastructural deficit inherited.
“We’ve gone very far. I think that anybody who is sincere can look across the country. Firstly, I think there are two things about these roads. All of us came together then we unleashed massive program of roads rehabilitation across the country. People can see that indeed the roads are being tackled.”
According to him, the road sectors is “an area that you are not going to have total satisfaction overnight. Roads are expensive and before we can say we have road networks that are really fit for modern Ghana, there is still some work to be done but the foundation and the work that is to be done on roads this year is incontestable. You can see with the naked eye accords the country.”
President Akufo Addo is in the Eastern region as part of a working tour.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
