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‘Year of Roads’ Agenda Cannot be Achieved – NPP Regional Chairman Hopeful
An aspiring Ashanti Regional Chairman for the ruling New Patriotic Party, Kwabena Owusu-Aduomi, has said the government’s highly touted Year of Roads agenda to improve road infrastructure may not be achieved as a result of financial difficulties.
At a show on local radio station in Kumasi, Oyerepa FM, Hon Aduomi, who is also the former Member of Parliament for Ejisu, explained that government needs more resources or funds to enable it implement the agenda.
“The reality is that government does not have cash to pay contractors, which they have admitted. That`s another reason for the introduction of e-levy, to enable them offset these debts.
“The major challenge in the Ashanti Region is our roads. Take Kwabre roads for example. Truth is road projects have been awarded in the Region. If I tell you the number of contracts, you’d be amazed.
“I was recently preparing a script for [Osei] Kyei-Mensah[-Bonsu] and only 8 percent of our roads are in good shape. Our roads are bad to say the least. We need huge cash to fix it. Government owes contractors filling just potholes, that’s how bad the situation is currently,” he stated.
Government, in its quest to address the bad road networks in the major parts of the country, declared 2020 as the ‘Year of Roads’.
Delivering the 2020 budget, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta pointed out that government will largely focus and prioritize road projects to improve road infrastructure in the sector to bring an end to the cries of many Ghanaians for better roads.
Same was announced as 2021 and 2022 have been declared the third ‘Year of roads’.
