Asenso Boakye Challenges Claims That Akufo-Addo’s 13,000km Constructed Roads Are “Mirage”

Former Minister for Roads and Highways, Francis Asenso Boakye, has challenged the Minister for Roads and Highways claims that former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s propagated 13,000km constructed roads are a mirage.

Following a tour across the country to assess the road network, the Hon. Kwame Agbodza contested, saying the claims differed from what he witnessed on the ground.

The Bantama Constituency MP, in a statement, said the assertion by the incumbent Minister is “disingenuous” and “a gross attempt to politicise hard facts”.

According to him, the Akufo-Addo administration undertook road projects totalling 13,624 kilometres between 2017 and the end of 2024.

These, he said, included new construction, asphalt overlays, gravelling and re-gravelling, reconstruction and partial reconstruction and upgrading and rehabilitation works.

“It must be emphasised that the data at the Ministry of Roads and Highways is compiled not by politicians, but by qualified civil servants. Specifically, the Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate, which remains intact even after the Minister reshuffled all other directorates, is responsible for tracking and reporting on completed road projects.”

Asenso Boakye also slammed the Minister for justifying the use of single sourcing in the award of contracts when he condemned the act.

“You cannot demonise a method when others use it, only to defend it when you find yourself in the same position. If the Minister now believes that procurement should be guided by technical evaluations (as it should be), then he owes the previous administration an apology for the misleading accusations.”

Source: https://opemsuo.com/author/hajara-fuseini/