The Director of Communication for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagba, has dismissed opposition propaganda that the government had borrowed so much, but had nothing to show for it.
According to him, the Akufo-Addo government had rolled massive development programmes that touched on every sector of the national economy, and that communities where these developments were taking place could bear witness to it.
Speaking in an interview with The Chronicle, Mr. Ahiagba said to prove to the opponents that massive projects were going on throughout the country his outfit would soon be informing Ghanaians the locations of these projects and progress made so far.
Focusing his attention on the Eastern and Volta regions, Ahiagba said the Tema-Mpakadan railway project, which sought to transform the rail sector was 95% complete and on course to be fully completed by December, this year.
According to him, the completion of the project would reduce road traffic in the area, as well as increase economic activity along the route.
Touching on the Eastern Corridor road, which stretches from Tema to Bawku in the Upper East Region, he said Vice President Mahamudu Bawumiah had already commissioned 56.4km of the Hohoe-Jasikan-Dodo-Pepesu stretch, in addition to the 45km Asikuma-Have stretch.
He revealed that “this is just one of the 58 road projects currently under construction in the Volta Region, progressing steadily and expected to be completed as scheduled in 2023.”
Still on the road sector, he said construction of a 175-metre span bridge over a tributary of the Black Volta River from Agbenoxoe to Dafor has been completed and commissioned.
He also noted that 30 of the 50 Composite Modular Steel Bridges project, for which government signed a €50 million agreement with the government of Czech Republic in 2019, have been completed, and that out of the 30 completed, 8 of them are ready to be handed over, whiles 22 are currently undergoing testing.
He also referred Ghanaians to the multi-purpose Atlantic Terminal project at the Takoradi Port and said it is the single most significant investment in the history of the Takoradi Port since its establishment and that it is currently 98% complete.
The NPP Director of Communication also revealed that 2,000 new communities have been hooked to the national grid by the Akufo-Addo government. This, he said, brings urban electrification to 95.2% with 72.6% of rural communities covered. On the health sector, Mr. Richard Ahiagba contended that the NHIS is on course to becoming fully digitalised by early 2023 to enable people conveniently and securely register for health insurance online to ease traffic at NHIS district offices and accelerate access to quality affordable healthcare.
He also told The Chronicle that Agenda 111’s District Hospitals in Akatsi North, South Dayi, Ho West, Afadzato South, Agotime Ziope, and Anloga in the Volta Region are being built with steady progression and expected to be completed in 2023.
He also hinted on the education sector that 900 and 200 Dual Desks for schools have been presented to the Accra Metropolitan and Juaben Municipal Education Services Directorate respectively, for onward distribution to various schools. The development will end the ill fitted schools unable to deliver quality education.
