The President during a tour of the Ashanti Region lauded the roads minister, Kwasi Amoako Atta, saying the work rate and kilometers of roads constructed showed Amoako-Atta has no rival in the road sector.
“I do not think there is a minister who has a record like Kwasi Amoako Atta. There is nobody,” the President boasted.
President Akufo-Addo placed Amoako-Atta above the likes of Richard Anane, Joe Gidisu, Inusah Fuseini among others.
Mr. Amoako-Atta is who is a cousin of President Akufo-Addo during the tour joined the President to inaugurate the proposed 4-tier Suame Interchange which include 4 different overpasses at Abrepo, Suame, Maakro area and Krofrom as part of a US$750Million facility from the Afreximbank.
In the Ashanti region alone, Akufo-Addo explained that his government has completed 86 road projects covering 1,850 kilometres while 310 projects have been also been awarded on contract and currently being executed.
The president acknowledged that owing to Ghana’s budget constraints, all roads cannot be worked on simultaneously but gradually, a lot of roads will be covered in due course.
After praising his road minister, the President took a dig at his archrival former President John Mahama describing him and untruthful.
“When I took over the reins of government from John Mahama, he made an assertion that infrastructure development in his time was unprecedented. Soon after I took over, I embarked on a national tour and everywhere I went, Ghanaians told me of the bad nature of their roads. So it became obvious to me that the unprecedented infrastructure assertions by John Mahama were untrue”, the president stated.
Source: Mynewsgh.com