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Binduri MP lied, John Mahama didn’t cut sod for construction of Bolga-Bawku road 3 times – NDC

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The National Democratic Congress in the Upper East Region has not taken kindly, a suggestion made by the MP for Binduri, Abdulai Abanga that the former President, John Dramani Mahama cut sod for the construction of the Bolgatanga-Bawku-Pulmonkom road thrice.

It would be recalled in that in an interview on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show, Mr. Abanga said, “before 2016, you could not drive on that road. Some people did not want to come to Bawku because of that road. The former President came to that area to cut sod for the road not once, not twice but thrice or so and the road was still there.”

He continued to say “it took this government to work on that road. I slept in my village and I am here [at the premises of A1 Radio] this morning. It took me less than 40 minutes to be here.”

Saeed Tijani Ahmed, the Upper East Regional Communications Director has however rubbished thec claims of the MP.

In a statement copied to this website, Mr. Ahmed said, “this narrative from the sleeping MP is a barefaced lie. President Mahama never cut sod for the reconstruction of the famous Bolgatanga-Bawku-Pulmonkom road more than once. President John Dramani cut sod for the reconstruction works on the 112 kilometers international road on the 11th of July 2016 during his two-day Accounting to the People tour of the Upper East Region.”

Read the full statement below.

RE-JOHN MAHAMA CUT SOD FOR BOLGATANGA – BAWKU- PULMONKOM ROAD THREE TIMES!

The attention of the NDC Regional communication Bureau has been drawn to a very wicked and mischievous lie by the MP for Binduri constituency, that, President Mahama cut sod for the Bolgatanga -Bawku -Pulmonkom road three times.

According to the non-performing MP “President Mahama came to that area to cut sod for the road not once, not twice but thrice or so and the road was still there”

Folks, this narrative from the sleeping MP is a bareface lie, President Mahama never cut sod for the reconstruction of the famous Bolgatanga-Bawku-Pulmonkom road more than once. President John Dramani cut sod for the reconstruction works on the 112 kilometers international road on the 11th of July 2016 during his two-day “Accounting to the People” tour of the Upper East Region.

The contractor Querez Galveo, a Brazillian company which was awarded the Gh₵ 612 million contract, to be funded from the Road Fund mobilized and moved to site before the former President cut the sod on the 11th of July 2016 for the first and the last time for the reconstruction works to start. The 112 kilometers road was to be completed in two and half years.

However, when the NPP led by Akuffo Addo and Bawumia took over in 2017, they asked the contractor to stop work claiming they were auditing the contract. For two years (2017 to 2019) no construction works took place on the road, until the beginning of 2020 when the contractor was asked to return to site.

This undue delay led to the contract sum increasing from Gh₵ 612 million to over Gh₵ 800 million. Again, the delay of the faultless contract signed by President John Dramani Mahama led to the delay in the completion of the project within the scheduled two and half years. Thus, portions of the road in 2020 was washed away by heavy rains, cutting the people of Kusaug Kingdom from the rest of the region.

We would like to entreat the general public to disregard the effusions of the non-performing MP, who is bound to lose in 2024, and his assigns who may repeat such bareface lie for political gains. No amount of lies and falsehood can take away the fact that the reconstruction of the Bolgatanga -Bawku -Pulmonkom road is a John Dramani Mahama legacy. We know without a shred of doubt that the people of Binduri constituency and the rest of the Kusaug Kingdom will reward the visionary Nation Builder, H.E John Dramani Mahama and the NDC in 2024.

Signed,

Saeed Tijani Ahmed

(Upper East Regional Communications Officer)

Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana

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