Vice-President Dr. Bawumia cutting the sod in Jasikan yesterday
Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia yesterday engaged
in a ground-breaking activity for commencement of work on the Hohoe-Dodo
Pepease-Jasikan road —
a part of the abandoned Eastern Corridor highway.
The activity has a
crashing effect on the propaganda being perpetrated by opposition elements that
roads in the Volta Region are not receiving attention from government.
It is part of the
dividends from the much-bashed Sinohyrdro funds from China, something the opposition
National Democratic Congress (NDC) lobbied hard to drown, but the campaign
failed. The funds are in and in the next few days, the Vice-President will be
busy across various parts of the country cutting sods to flag off commencement
of work on major game-changing projects.
Lined up for the sod-cutting activities are the abandoned inner roads of the tourist former capital of the Gold Coast, Cape Coast.
Cape Coast is home to
many historical castles which attract thousands of tourists from especially
America, who troop to the place to have a glimpse of the slave dungeons.
The upgrading of the
abandoned inner roads of the ancient town would go a long way to enhance
tourism.
Following in the long
list of sod-cutting events is that of the construction of the Nyinahin roads.
DAILY GUIDE
has gathered that other infrastructural projects all under the Sinohydro funds
will be made public soon.
For those who stood
against the barter arrangement for bauxite with the Chinese, this is not music
in their ears.
Not only have the
funds been released, but also dividends originating from them are becoming
manifest.
The journey to this
stage of the country’s quest for funds to undertake infrastructural
developments has been rough, full of sneers and jeers from the opposition.
Observers of the
development said the changes that the funds would effect under prudent
management would visit on the government massive leverage at the polls.
Not even a formal
correspondence to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to block the deal worked
and the Minority was humiliated.
The opposition
claimed that government would destroy the Atewa forest through the exploitation
of the reserve, another propaganda effort to block the deal.
The President and his team have cause to smile as those who stood against the Sinohydro deal will now retreat to their burrows, with tails tucked between their hind legs.
By A.R. Gomda
