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Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has for the first time given President John Dramani the thumbs up for the unprecedented infrastructural developmental projects spread across the country within his three year stay in office.

According to the Suame Member of Parliament, who was once quoted to have said he could perform better than John Mahama if he were President, ‘it would be wrong for anybody, including members of his party, NPP, to say that the President has done nothing’.

Commenting on a recent book launched by President Mahama which catalogued his achievements within three years in office on Ok Fm last week, the veteran legislator rubbished claims by members of the NPP that President Mahama has done nothing to ask for renewal of his mandate in the 2016 elections.

Obviously hypnotized and dumbfounded by the achievements captured in the book, the minority leader, without mincing words, said the president has indeed achieved something worthwhile to add to the existing projects former President Mills and Kufuor left behind.

He said President Mahama has done well by providing water, roads, schools and hospitals, adding that ‘inasmuch as the projects are visible for all to see, it cannot therefore be said that the President has done nothing’.

Mr Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu said the NPP’s constant criticism of the Mahama administration is not about his non-performance in the area of infrastructure, but the lack of financial and fiscal discipline which he said has resulted in reckless government spending.
He noted that the costs of the projects under the Mahama government are outrageously expensive; deceiving and cheating Ghanaians with the mindset that they will not demand for accountability once the projects are completed.

The Minority leader named corruption to be the cause of the high cost of road construction as government deliberately refuses to pay contractors, knowing well that after 90 days the contractors are allowed to add the bank rate of 36 percent on the $1.5 to $1.6 million.
He estimated that the delay in paying contractors compels the country to pay some $3 million dollars while such money could have been used to construct more roads in the country.