President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that his administration has built more roads than any other government in the history of Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
President Akufo-Addo stated in his State of the Nation speech to Parliament on Wednesday, March 8, that the majority of funds borrowed had gone into road building.
“Mr Speaker, I am proud of the amount of work that we have done, especially in the road sector. Roads constitute the largest number of questions asked in this House by Members of Parliament; a large amount of the monies we borrow are for road construction. Shall we dare stop constructing roads?
“Mr Speaker, I would like to state categorically that this Government has built more roads than any government in the history of the 4th Republic, and Mr. Speaker, the details of all these roads are attached in the annex to this message. I have done so because, last year, when I made a similar pronouncement, I was met with howls and gasps of incredulity from the Minority benches, and so I thought it’s appropriate, this time, to present it as an annex to the statement, which will be part of Hansard.”
Aside from road construction, the President stated that his administration has successfully implemented a National Identification System using the Ghana card, built more railways than any other government in the Fourth Republic, and established the Zongo Development Fund to address the needs of Zongo and inner-city communities.
He also claimed that his administration has built more infrastructure in the Zongo Communities than any other in the Fourth Republic.
