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A member of the communication team of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Boakye has described the over $60 million dollar Nkrumah Circle interchange project as "useless" and a misplaced priority. According to him, President Mahama should have considered the roads that will help farmers carry their farm produce to the cities as food stuffs are going waste, than spending millions of dollars to construct Nkrumah interchange which will not serve any purpose at the moment. Speaking on Oman FM�s National Agenda morning show, Nana Boakye said that the farmers were disappointed in the awards as they were rather expecting a support from the government to construct their roads and not toilet rolls and alcoholic beverages. He hinted that the same promise from President Mahama was made to the same people at Sefwi when the late President Mills was alive; in that President Mahama, then Vice President cut sod to begin road construction that can lead to Sefwi but that road has been abandoned and vehicles can�t use the road again. To him, it is amazing that President Mahama is again promising the farmers of $150 million dollars road construction when he has spent a lot of money to construct the circle interchange; considering it as unnecessary and misplaced priority. He opined that if the President has constructed the road leading to the farming regions and communities, there would have been enough farm produce for exportation and the revenue accrued from them could have been used to construct the Nkrumah Circle interchange without borrowing money to construct it. �I have been saying this for a long time; is this circle interchange necessary? Was the circle killing us or what? In this world, there must be priority and so the over 100 million dollars which is being used to construct circle interchange could have been used to construct the farming roads. Cocoa is a major source of income to the economy and if those roads were constructed first, the proceeds from the cocoa could have been used for the circle interchange,� he chided. �He is now promising the farmers at Sefwi; didn�t he know that the roads at Sefwi are important to the farmers before he spent a lot of millions of dollars to construct the circle interchange? This for me is a total misplaced priority and unnecessary as we speak; as we speak, I will say it is useless,� he fumed.