Almost two years after then President John Dramani Mahama said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must have been sleeping during his tour in the Western Region to have missed the good work done by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government on the Eastern Corridor Road, a response has been served.
Akufo-Addo was reported to have bemoaned the state of roads during his five-day tour of the region, criticizing the government for failing to honour its promise to fix the roads.
Reacting to the statement, Mahama said Akufo Addo might have fallen asleep while touring the region, hence did not notice the various projects the NDC had embarked on there.
“During my campaign in 2012, I realized that most of the roads here are very bad. I made the promise to invest heavily in roads here if I am elected President. I have kept my promise. Under the cocoa roads programme, most of the projects are in the Western Region. The majority of roads in this region, are many, I cannot name them. I heard someone came here and said he had not seen these roads. I am sure he was sleeping at the time,” said Mahama.
While addressing the chiefs and people of Hohoe on day two of his Volta Regional tour, President Akufo-Addo assured that his administration will fix the Eastern Corridor roads, stressing that the erstwhile John Mahama administration failed to execute that task.
In a direct response to Mahama, Akufo-Addo stated that his journey to the Volta Region was a bumpy one owing to the terrible nature of the roads; hence, he could not sleep.
“President Mahama was saying that the period of his office has seen infrastructural development that we had never seen in Ghana before, unprecedented infrastructural development, and then I said I don’t see these unprecedented development, everywhere I go, I was on bad roads, and he said I was asleep on the road and that is why I didn’t see the good development that had taken place.
“Today, I’ve come on the eastern corridor road and I didn’t sleep one inch, I couldn’t sleep [because the road was bad]. We are going to fix it, Amoako Atta [Roads Minister] has told you he is going to fix it, we are going to fix it and it will not be for anybody to say whether somebody is asleep or not asleep, they will see that the roads have been fixed,” he said.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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So will there be a single day that Peace FM will broadcast news without mentioning their tin-god Akufo Addo's name? I think they making that name too monotonous.
AKUFO ADDO, ARE YOU SURE YOU DID NOT SLEEP DURING THE JOURNEY? YOU WHO CAN SLEEP WHILE A VERY ROUDY RALLY IS ONGOING IN YOUR HONOR? THEN I GUESS THAT THOSE DAYS YOU WERE ALWAYS FOUND SLEEPING DURING RALLIES AND CONFERENCES YOU WERE BY THEN HUNGRY PAPA. NOW YOU HAVE MONEY AROUND YOU EVERYWHERE AND YOU CAN AFFORD ANY MEAL OF YOUR CHOICE.THEN CLAPP HANDS FOR YOURSELF.
Master Shortman fix the road and stop complaining
Kweku Baaku is your friend also doing a low politics or this one is allowed.