According to Nana Akufo-Addo, the negative consequences of the NDC government’s refusal to continue projects initiated by the NPP in several areas are being felt across the country by Ghanaians.
The criticism is contained in a statement available to the New Statesman in which Nana Addo commends the nation’s cocoa farmers on their hardwork that has put Ghana on the brink of achieving a record production of one million metric tonnes by 2012.
Nana Addo explains that this milestone has come about as a result of deliberate policies put in place by the NPP administration, and being continued by the Mills-Mahama NDC administration.
“This is the way to go as a country”, Nana Addo stresses, while deploring the decision by the NDC not to continue NPP projects, such as the affordable housing project and many road projects across the length and breadth of the country.
“The affordable housing project started by the NPP, involving thousands of housing units across regions, majority of which are nearing completion, have been abandoned by the NDC, in spite of a two-year old assurance from the incumbent President,” he laments.
The NPP Presidential Candidates is sad that numerous road projects started by the NPP, including major commercial routes such as the Achimota-Ofankor road, Nsawam-Suhum road, Madina-Pantang road and the Sofoline interchange, have all suffered from lack of funding under the NDC.
“This negative behaviour must not be encouraged and I urge government to reconsider its position on such projects,” Nana insists.
On Saturday, January 31, 2011, the Head of Monitoring and Evaluation Unit at the Presidency, Tony Aidoo, advised the ruling NDC government to leave projects and programmes started by the erstwhile NPP government to rot.
Dr Aidoo remarked: “The projects were ill-conceived, and therefore the cost of executing these projects is not in our budget, nor do they fit into our scheme of things so far as our electoral promises are concerned.”
He continued, “On the other hand, we also have our electoral promises to the people of this country to fulfil…Sadly the resources earmarked to fulfil our electoral promises are the one we are using to complete haphazardly-thought of projects that were not properly designed.”
Against this background, Nana Addo has asked the entire membership of the New Patriotic Party to join hands with the leadership and work intelligently and courageously to deliver Ghanaians onto the path of a brighter and exciting future.
“This was the philosophy behind our successful ‘All hands on deck’ nationwide tour, which began on the 5th of May in Breman Asikuma in the Central Region and ended, on schedule, on the 16th of May in Tema, the Greater Accra Region,” Nana Addo stressed.
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