The Minister for Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has disclosed that more than 2,000 kilometres of roads are currently under construction at various stages across the country as part of the government’s infrastructure development agenda.
Speaking during a citizens’ engagement held at Ndewura Jakpa Senior High School in the Savannah Region on Saturday, May 23, the Roads Minister outlined ongoing efforts by the administration of President John Dramani Mahama to improve the country’s road network and address long-standing infrastructure challenges.
Agbodza used the occasion to also challenge claims previously made by former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo regarding the number of roads constructed during the eight-year tenure of the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration.
According to him, assertions that nearly 18,000 kilometres of roads were completed under the Akufo-Addo government do not reflect the actual records available within the roads sector.
“Currently, over 2,000 kilometres of roads are being constructed. This is not fiction, unlike what President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo did in Parliament when he did in one of his State of the Nation Addresses and pretended that he built almost 18,000 kilometres of roads.”
The Roads and Highways Minister argued that there is insufficient evidence to support the former president’s claims about completed road infrastructure projects during his administration.
“There is no record that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo actually even started and completed 100 kilometres of the roads, it doesn’t exist. But President John Dramani Mahama will go down in history as having completed 2,000 kilometres of roads.”
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