"NDC did very little in terms of roads" - Dr. Bawumia

The Vice President was at Nyinahini in the Atwima Mponua for the Sod Cutting Ceremony of the construction of the Sinohydro Roads

"NDC did very little in terms of roads" - Dr. Bawumia
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia; Vice Presdident of Ghana

Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has informed Ghanaians that road infrastructures accounted in the Green Book by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as completed were invented seeing that the reality on the ground are different.

He divulged that the NDC did very little on roads despite all the claims that Ghanaian roads were in better shape after eight years of country administration supporting his facts on the 2019 Afro Barometer study. Infrastructure and roads were recorded as the most frequently cited problem that Ghanaians want government to address for the first time since 2002 according to the survey by the pan-African series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, and society.

 

 

“After eight years in office, we realized that the NDC did very little in terms of roads. I don’t know if they did any roads in Nyinahini,” he enquired

"When you go to Volta, the roads are in bad shape, in Upper East and Upper West Region, they did not do one major road. So we keep asking, where are the roads they made? That shows you how important roads are.

“In Ghana, the afro Barometer serving which just came out by the CDD tells us that the number one concern of Ghanaians today is the state of their roads. Therefore, if a government has been in office for eight years and after that, the number one concern of the people is about their state of roads, then the matter is clear. They did not address this road issue in any serious fashion,” he said

Dr. Bawumia was at Nyinahini in the Ashanti Region, Atwima Mponua Constitutency on Friday, November 22, 2019 for the second sod Cutting ceremony for about 69.5km of roads packed together to be executed in the bauxite-rich enclave.  The first sod cutting ceremony for the week was done for the 88km Hohoe-Jasikan-Dodopepeso road in the Oti region.

 

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Addressing the gathering of Chiefs, students and inhabitants on Friday afternoon, the Vice-president expressed that Ghana’s possession of minerals could transform the nation if given the deserved attention especially when it comes to bauxite. He pledged that the  people of Nyinahini will not be abandoned to go through the distresses that inhabitants of Obuasi experienced due to egocentric implementations.

 

 

“From bauxite, we get alumina then to aluminum which is used to manufacture many things such as car parts, airplane parts, medical equipments and so on but we have realised that after almost 100 years of the country mining gold, we have learnt a hard lesson.

"This is a country rich in mineral resource but our people are poor. So how can we be sitting on valuable mineral resource whiles our people are poor. It must only mean one thing, that those resources is not been used to benefit them. That is why we have to change the way we are doing things,”

“We thought that it was important to use the bauxite resources of this country to benefit the people. We have to change the paradigm, we should not allow what happened to the people of Obuasi and other areas to happen to the people of Nyinahini. We have to change the thinking,” he said.

 

 

Narrating the Ghana-Sinohydro Master Project Support Agreement that seeks to leverage a fraction of Ghana’s bauxite deposit for some critical infrastructure projects, the vice president spoke that the government approached China to undertake infrastructural projects and in addition, refine Ghana’s bauxite in pursuit of payment after ascertaining the mineral proceeds. He spoke that after months of dialogues between the two countries, there was a palpable agreement.

“When we brought it to parliament, there were many people on the opposition benches who thought it was a hoax. It persisted and we made sure it finally happened," he added.

Dr. Bawumia assured the inhabitants in the Atwima Mponua District that Nyinahini and its environs will profit from the Sinohydro deal in terms of infrastructures and public services.

 

 

“Infact the town roads that you will see at Nyinahini and Mpasatia will be asphaltic Concrete roads

"These are going to be first class roads and we will build it to standard. It is the first phase and we will build better roads to upgrade this constituency,” he assured.

The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Ghana, H.E. Shi Ting Wang guaranteed that Sinohydro would continue to cooperate with Ghana to promote infrastructural projects making it a greater priority in the development of Ghana.