President Akufo Addo Cautions Non-Performing Road Contractors

The President Nana Akufo Addo has cautioned the contractors engaged to rehabilitate roads in the country to focus on the job at hand. Any contractor who demonstrates laxity in the performance of his duties would be shown the exit, Nana Akufo Addo said, stressing that the Ministry of Roads and Highways ought to ensure strict supervision of all road contracts.

President Nana Akufo Addo addressing a durbar of the chiefs and people of Manso Adubia in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti Region said there must be value for money in the execution of road projects in the country. Akufo Addo was in the Region on a three day working visit was not happy at the deplorable nature of the road network in the district. Consequently, he said,

his second term of office would work harder to improve on the situation if the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP is given the mandate in the December 7 elections. Despite its huge gold deposit and economic potentials, the road network in the area is nothing to write home about, making it difficult to facilitate socio economic activities. President Nana Akufo Addo said the NPP’s economic performance and management had brought many

benefits to the citizenry, citing implementation of the One District, One Factory 1D1F, One District, the One Warehouse, Planting for Food and Jobs and Planting for Export and Rural Development Programmes. Under the 1D1F Programme, the government had in the past three years completed 76 factories while more than 230 were at various stages of completion. On Free Senior High School SHS Programme, President Nana Akufo Addo justified the government’s resolve to have initiated it saying the underlying objective was to develop an appreciable level of Ghana’s human resource base.