Most of the roads that former President Mahama constructed at Asokore Mampong, prior to the 2016 polls, have been destroyed after a few months.
This was disclosed by Alidu Seidu, the current Chief Executive for Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti Region.
According to him, the NDC administration, who was desperate to secure more votes in the municipality, constructed the roads few weeks to the polls.
Mr Alidu, who sounded furious, stated that shoddy work was done due to the speed at which the roads were constructed.
He lambasted the NDC administration for wasting the public purse because of their hankering to woo voters with the last minute road projects in the area.
The Asokore Mampong MCE said never again should politicians embark on last minute projects, which are done hurriedly, just to please voters.
“People believed that Asokore Mampong doesn’t have problem with roads as all their roads had been asphalted by the NDC administration.
“The truth is, the NDC constructed the roads to woo voters so proficiency was relegated to the gutters and the roads are getting destroyed”.
Speaking on Nhyira FM in Kumasi, the Asokore Mampong MCE also expressed sadness over several court cases presently facing the assembly.
He said the assembly was faced with more than 15 legal suits at the time he assumed his post.
Mr Alidu pointed out that the situation could affect the swift development of the municipality; criticising his predecessor for not doing enough to halt the legal cases since some of them could have been avoided.
The MCE also indicated that the assembly’s coffers were not in good shape when he assumed power, saying “we have a debt of over GH¢ 2 million”.
According to him, the debt excludes payment for shoddy road projects carried out by the NDC administration.
He said the assembly had also agreed to turn a court building project, it was constructing at Aboabo into a clinic to serve the people.
He said because no consultations were made, the court was situated very close to a mosque; and that could affect proceedings.
Source: Daily Guide
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It does not matter who stay in office of government. We citizens must chase those who did the bad job because the money we are talking about is not small. Does it make sense to spend this money on roads that never had a life span of 20 or more years and some of you guys are making this npp and ndc matter. Fo how long shal we be fooling our selves and praise the politician when they mess up our taxes. Hope you have all seen what is going on in venezuala, very soon it would happen in ghana when every bofy could no more take the nonsensi of our politicians. Very soon the poor qould start attacking the those who have messed up our monies because we can not suffer for monies to be used in this way. God save us
Some of these revelations must be explained for the general public to be educated to serve as a guide to the electorate. The politics of deceit and ***barred word*** must stop. The ten percent kickbacks must also be halted for the interest of our nation.
Are we going to eat road ... you guys should be careful
If it's WRONG it's WRONG! The time for 'shielding' politics is far gone...whoever misbehaves (NPP or NDC) will be fired...The NPP will not see a goat and say they saw a cow, like the NDC did..do you remember (Baba Jamal)...?? Sayoooo. We are watching..None of the mistakes NDC did will be covered...and the same will happen, if the NPP go off-track.
So if the roads are bad he should not say so?
You these guys should be careful the way you are condemning and labeling your predecessors as corrupt. You have just taken office and must take time to learn. Yours may be even worse than the peolple you are accusing today.