Flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP,) Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has said that claims by President John Mahama and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) that it has constructed a 695-kilometer highway from the Tema Roundabout in the Greater Accra region to Kulungugu in the North-Eastern border with Burkina Faso are untrue.
Dr. Nduom, who is on a 5-day tour of Southern Volta, Northern, Upper East and West regions, told traditional leaders he conferred with that he plied the said roads on his way from Accra, and can confidently say that the claims by the President Mahama-led administration about an Eastern Corridor Highway are false and misleading.
He added that, the projects either did not exist or have been abandoned. The PPP leader explained that, almost all the roads are in deplorable conditions with small portions of the Dodo Pepesu Nkwanta gravelled.
The NDC promised to construct a national route which stretches from the Tema Roundabout and ends at Kulungugu of the North-Eastern border with Burkina Faso in 2012.
The road according to government will provide a shorter access to the Tema Port as well as help to improve contacts between natives of the Northern, Upper East, and Volta regions.
It was also to improve integration between Ghana and her neighbors such as Malians, and Nigerians among others.
But Dr. Nduom told the chiefs of Wulensi, Nyankpayili, Bimbilla and Tatale that political parties which have won power recently forget them after they win elections; and that it was important they give their votes and support to the PPP this time because it is a party of doers.
Dr. Nduom charged the people not be dissuaded by the NDC’s stunts but rather look around and see how they have stagnated in their poor living conditions.
He decried the state of the Wulensi Yam Market, the roads coupled with the fact that there was no clinic or hospital in the area.
At Bimbilla, Dr. Nduom told the crowd that they voted for President Mahama in 2012 yet got poor roads, high electricity tariffs and high unemployment in return.
He asked the people to ask Nana Akufo-Addo to stand aside, and also retire President Mahama; and put him Papa Kwesi Nduom in office as the next President.
He later called on the Bimbilla Na, Yerenbolgona Yakubu Andani, where he sought his support.
“Roads from Hohoe to Bimbilla are bad. Claims being made about the Eastern Corridor roads are untrue. No roads mean no jobs or investments. This area produces yam yet there are no factories to add value to them. You should change government,” Dr. Nduom told the chief.
Meanwhile the Minister for Roads and Highways, Inusah Fuseini, has announced the Eastern Corridor road will be completed in 2016.
The Bimbilla Na praised Dr. Nduom for the relative peace on his campaign and said the Nanumbas want peace and development contrary to media reportage.
“Youths must be educated to follow the peaceful electoral process and I hope my people will see your existing works and support you,” he said.
Dr. Nduom made a final stop at Tatale where teaming supporters and residents rushed from their homes to meet him at the GPRTU Cargo station late in the night.
He urged them to vote massively for the PPP to restore the once prosperous Ghana.
Source: citifmonline.com
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I normally wouldn't want to second any politician on anything they say,this time round, men and women of Ghana, let me chip in here to say that, Dr Papa Nduom's comment has come rather too late. In fact, the NDC and Prez Mahama have really disappointed me when it comes to the trumpeted Eastern Corridor Road. I traveled to Bimbilah through the eastern corridor road with my wife and a Komkomba girl I stay with. In fact, I got so angry that I nearly lost my head. Look reader, the Eastern Corridor Road is no road. In fact you can't even describe it as a street. It can clearly be described as a ***barred word*** path full of gullies. The road is so deplorable that it took us two solid days to travel from Accra to Bimbilah. For once Politicians should be serious with Ghanaians.
the road is under construction, l have traveled on it, some portions have been done.l think Dr. Ndoum traveled on another road or was mislead by his communicators..
Please, we're mourning Mrs. Eva Loko. I can see you do not have any sense of compassion and respect....and you wanna be a president. Sia man!!!
It is true People, travel from Peki to Jasikan and see it for yourselves. The promise to build the Eastern Corridor Road is over 20 years now. How can we continue to vote when they disappoint us always.
President Mahama has not said anywhere that the 695 kilometer eastern corridor road from Tema to Kulungugu has been constructed, in other words completed. I have heard that portions of the road are under construction, but certainly not that then whole road has been completed. this is the problem I have with politicians. They are all LIARS. Dr Ndoum cannot tell me that nothing at all is being done on that road. There is construction going on along the road. When politicians learn to tell the truth Ghana will be a better place. But with all of them especially the opposition politicians always churning out lies, we are doomed. Negative vibrations from lies have polluted the atmosphere to the extent that nothing good seems to happen in Ghana. Let's all as a people be more positive in our outlook, and let's tell the truth always.
Really and the CPP candidate said the road has been done. Asemoo. Samia might be right o Ivor Greenstreet is a dangerous person.
My message to you the voter. 1. Please note that you can vote because you are matured to take your OWN decision and not what people say. 2. NDC/NPP don't want any other party to join them in the competition for the presidency, so that they alone can take all the glory. 3. The introduction of a 3rd political force will make the electoral landscape more competitive. 4. No vote is a waste unless it was not cast properly and cannot be counted. 5. Be happy for the opportunity to vote for any other party of your choice even if you were the only person that voted for that party. Have confidence in yourself. 6. In parliament, we hardly know who is telling the truth, whether NDC or NPP. A third group of MPs will give us a better understanding. 7. Don't sell your powerful vote for a small gift that cannot last you for 4 years. 8. Let's introduce another strong party. Even if they don't win but get enough votes like 15%, the one who will win will fear and do the right thing.
COMING NEWS, GOD BLESS ALL NANA PEOPLE. N.P.P SUPPORTERS ALL OVER GHANA, ALL N.P.P FACE BOOK USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD, YES NANA ADDO MADE HIS TORY YESTERDAY, AT TRADE FAIR, HE PULLED THE GREATEST CROWD IN THE HISTORY OF GHANA, NOT EVEN NKRUMAH, RAWLINGS KUFFOUR HAVE EVER PULLED CROWD LIKE THAT, NOW, N.P.P IS TO ORGANIZE ANOTHER A NATION WIDE RALLY IN ACCRA ON THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER 2016. , THAT WILL BE THE LAST RALLY BEFORE DECEMBER 7 VOTING, EVERY CHAIRMAN IS TO BRING 2 MILLION PEOPLE FROM EACH REGION TO ACCRA CIRCLE OBRA SPORT, WE WILL PUT 20 MILLION PEOPLE ON THE STREET OF ACCRA, WE WILL MAKE ACCRA STAND STILL, WE WILL MAKE MAHAMA AND HIS N,D,C MINISTERS RUN AWAY FROM GHANA, GHANA WILL STAND STILL THAT DAY. GHANA PEOPLE ARE TO ATTEND WITH THEIR CHILDREN,, WIFES, UNBIZ, SUFFERING GHANA PEOPLE, LADIES EVERY ONE FROM EVERY PLACE IN GHANA MUST COME , GOD BLESS ALL N.P.P SUPPORTERS AND GOD BLESS GHANA, DO EVERY THING U CAN TO VOTE MAHAMA OUT, HE IS A DISASTERS, INCOMPETENT AND A DISGRCE, HE HAS SPOILT GHANA, NANA WILL FIZ GHANA, CHANE HAS COME, FROM SUFFERING ,WAHALA AND REPRESS PEOPLE OF GHANA,
THIS MAN DON'T KNOW WHAT HE WANT YOU COULDN'T BE A GOOD LEADER FOR C.P.P AND THUS YOU FORMULATED YOUR PARTY NOW WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HE IS AFTER WHETHER HE RETIRE AND JOIN OTHER PROPHETS OR .....AH ADVICE YOURSELF.