Atiwa Youth Association in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern region has described President John Dramani Mahama’s last state of the nation address as “evidence-based of speculation and lies.”
In a press release signed by the Association in the persons of Ofori Kissi Ratina Odeneho, Yaa Boatemaa and Yusif Adam and copied to Today yesterday in Accra, the youth noted that it took the people of Atiwa by surprise when President Mahama said that his government has completed tarring the roads from Anyinam to Abomosu in the Atiwa West constituency of the Atiwa District.
“We the youth of Atiwa are telling Ghanaians and the media that the said roads which the president claimed, his government has constructed is not true and we dare whoever cares to know to come here and verify,” the statement urged.
“…to tell Ghanaians the true state of the roads in Atiwa, particularly in the Atiwa West, where President Mahama “boldly lied” to Ghanaians, we can summarise it by saying, “Atiwa roads are horrible,” the youth in the statement asserted.
According to the statement, the road from Anyinam-Kwabeng-Abomosu was not tarred, adding that it has not been touched, let alone to think of its completion.
The statement further stressed that President Mahama lied to Ghanaians when he claimed that the Muoso Junction to Akrofufu road has developed gutters and manholes.
The youth also noted that the Akakom-Akwaduuso-Ekorso was dustier than even a sand blasting site.
“This road is so bad that only okada works on it, and the Akakom-Amonom-Sankubenase road has developed synclines and geosynclines as if it is a fold mountain,” the statement asserted.
According to the statement, the Abomosu-Asunafo-Jejeti road was rougher than a rocky mountain.
However, the youth in the statement admitted that the Atiwa West Member of Parliament (MP), Kwasi Amoako-Atta, has been a blessing to the constituency.
“All the developments in the constituency were made possible through his instrumentality,” the statement acknowledged.
These, he mentioned, include school buildings, CHIP compounds, hospital laboratories, computers and accessories, fridges for hospital and clinics, generators, boreholes, KVIP, rehabilitation of markets and funeral grounds, farm implements and building materials.
“But as for Mahama’s government, we have not benefited anything,” the youth stated.
“We are disappointed in President Mahama for telling lies to Ghanaians about roads in Atiwa. We are calling on the President to fix another date to give us the true state of the nation address because the one he gave was a bunch of lies.
“We don’t know whether the President is a liar or his appointees and cronies are not telling him the truth,” the statement concluded.
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