As It Churns Out Conflicting Percentages Of Achievements In The Road Sector

News Desk Report

Claiming to have built a robust and resilient economy in the nation’s history, a cursory investigation into few budget statements presented to the nation by the erstwhile Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, to tout the so-called achievements proves to be false.

Hoodwinking the people of Ghana, the NPP then in government, in its bid to discredit His Excellency ex-President Jerry John Rawlings and his NDC administration, sought to create the impression as if road sector development was left unattended to, even when they were fully aware of the immense gains made by the then NDC in power.

Noted for its insincerity and proclivity for spewing lies all over the political marketplace, the NPP in its budget statements for the year 2004/5/6/7 and 8, decided to play on the intelligence of Ghanaians, with certain cooked out figures to support their claim of having improved on the road infrastructure of the nation.

On the Accra-Kumasi road, the NPP in its budget in 2004 (section 203) claimed works on the Anyinam-Konongo road was 28%, with the percentage of work reaching 94, in its budget statement presented in 2005, precisely at the section 231, only for them to beat a retreat in 2006, citing the work rate on this same road (Anyinam-Konongo) as being 48%.

As part of NPP’s agenda to throw dust into the eyes of the good people of Ghana, in order to claim glory for things they have not done, John Kufuor and his government, in presenting their budget statement in 2005 (section 231), with all the forces under their control at the time, indicated that, the Ofankor-Nsawam road which was under construction, was 71% complete, with the percentage of work done on the above-mentioned road decreasing to 57% in their 2006 (section 575) budget statement.

Still on the road sector, the NPP made Ghanaians believe, courtesy its budget statements for 2004/6/7 and 8, that the rate of work on the Wenchi-Sampa road, was impressive and the road in the best of state, when that wasn’t the case. According to the NPP budget statement presented in 2004 (207), the Wenchi-Sampa road was captured to be 70% complete, but mysteriously, this same road, via the 2006 budget statement was said to be in the phase 1 and 98% complete, as if the rate of work on the road in 2004 was arrived at, without taking into consideration, the previous work stages it has gone through.

It is based on the above-revealing moral fraud and many other concealed lies, propagated by the NPP then in government that places the Atta Mills-led NDC government at higher pedestal, with its remarkable economic gains, and consistency shown in all its budget statements as presented to the people.