President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says roads constructed under his tenure as President is unprecedented in the 4th Republic.
President Akufo-Addo made the comments during an interview on Radio Upper West Monday, August 22nd 2022 at the beginning of his tour of the Upper West Region.
The President touted his government’s achievements in road infrastructure as unprecedented since the advent of the Fourth Republican Constitution in 1992.
“I just want to be a little more modest and compare apples and apples, and not apples and oranges. And I’m saying that the roads infrastructure that has taken place under Akufo-Addo’s NPP government, is without equal in this 4th Republic,” the President said.
“Government have expanded the road network dramatically. Obviously, when you’re starting from zero, when you get to four, it doesn’t look as if you’ve got very far, but from zero to four in itself is a big movement, and when you get to five or six or seven, then you realise that you’re beginning to succeed”.
Nana Akufo-Addo continued: “In the face of apparent financial difficulties confronting the nation…, it’s been a difficult time, but as I said, we are very conscious of the difficulties in the management of the economy, and it affects areas like arrears of payments to contractors, but we are making a big effort to try and resolve these problems.”
Nana Akufo-Addo vowed that the government would do all in its power to pay contractors what they’re owed because when contractors are not paid, “the development of our road infrastructure stalls. Things are going to work out, they are definitely going to work out,”
As part of his tour, the President also paid a courtesy call on the Overlord of the Wa Traditional Area, Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, and also inspected ongoing work on the Youth Resource Centre, which is nearly completed.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com
