Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta has taken a swipe at the National Democratic Congress (NDC), claiming the party fabricated a lot of infrastructural projects.
The John Mahama administration published its achievements of infrastructural projects in the legendary Green Book, but the New Patriotic Party in opposition then claimed most of them were nonexistent.
Presenting the 2019 Mid-Year Budget Review in Parliament on Monday, Mr. Ofori Atta said unlike the NDC, the Akufo-Addo government will fix real roads.
“We have looked beyond the legendary Green Book of bold but many unsubstantiated claims of infrastructural projects fabricated and built but in those beautiful pages for our predecessors’ 2016 campaign. We have also heard the echoing calls of the people from across the country since the Green Book was commissioned and their cries are to have their roads fixed.
“My message to all those WhatsApp videos of bad roads is this: we have heard you; we have seen them and; we are sending over the motor graders, wheel loaders, asphalt mixing plants and road roller machines to fix your community roads, farm gate roads and highways. We will certainly not be able to do them all within this four-year term. But, we have planned for them and have found the money to do far more than what the Green Book authors achieved.
“Fellow Ghanaians, I wish to plead with you and assure you to bear with us, for your obeying government, the Akufo-Addo government, will fix your roads and we shall fix them; not with words and pictures,” Mr. Ofori Atta told the House.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM
