{"id":623003,"date":"2019-05-21T07:49:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/05\/1558362674_166_John-Mahama.jpg\" alt=\"Nana Addo lied about r"},"modified":"2019-05-21T07:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:49:34","slug":"nana-addo-lied-about-road-contracts-awarded-by-my-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/21\/nana-addo-lied-about-road-contracts-awarded-by-my-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo lied about road contracts awarded by my gov&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/1558362674_166_John-Mahama.jpg\" alt=\"Nana Addo lied about road contracts awarded by my gov\u2019t \u2013 Mahama\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Former President, John Mahama has accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of falsifying facts and figures on road contracts awarded by his government before he left office.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NDC flagbearer, Akufo-Addo abrogated all such contracts and re-awarded them at exorbitant prices; hence he cannot fathom why the President will attack him over road projects.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Nana Akufo-Addo questioned the existence of the supposed unprecedented road infrastructure provided by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) prior to the 2016 general elections.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2VaHinFb1E8\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He could not see the massive infrastructure developments touted by the Mahama government as achievements.<\/p>\n<p>But responding to Nana Akufo-Addo in an exclusive interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>,\u00a0 Mr. Mahama said; \u201cthe President lied. I never said I had done all the roads in the country as has been reported to have said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery government comes and adds some. Everybody can feel that I was doing their roads for them. The list of the roads we were working on is there. It was this government that came and suspended all the contracts and stopped the contractors from working and two years now, they have not paid them for the work they did and so the roads have stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLook at the Jaskian road that the President went to visit, we awarded it on contract.\u00a0 It was Nana Addo who came in 2017 and asked the contactor to stop work. That eastern corridor road was supposed to be completed in 2018. He came in and stopped all those works on the Eastern Corridor. The cost is even higher now than the award we gave. So he has re-awarded it at a cost higher than the contract sum. Now, he has seen the harm that has been caused in re-awarding it. There are a lot of inconsistencies in what the President is doing\u201d, he argued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mahama\u2019s \u2018unprecedented\u2019 roads still a mirage \u2013 Nana Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo called the Mahama government\u2019s claims in 2016 as mere propaganda and said there was no truth in them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf there were truth in it, all the roads around would not be in this state,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He recalled that the former President, John Mahama said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate must have probably been sleeping to have missed the good work done on the roads.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lV3pkWI2glk\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>Now, the Akufo-Addo government has said it will invest GHc 100 million of the Emergency Spot Improvement Project funds for significant road rehabilitation in the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe unprecedented road infrastructure is a mirage. Everywhere I go people complain of roads, and therefore the claim can only be described as propaganda. But measures have been put in place by my government to address the problem and Akrodie, Goaso, Kenyasi, Hwidiem and others will their roads fixed soon through the Emergency Spot Improvement Programme and the contracts will be awarded soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President, John Mahama has accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of falsifying facts and figures on road contracts awarded by his government before he left office. According to the NDC flagbearer, Akufo-Addo abrogated all such contracts and re-awarded them at exorbitant prices; hence he cannot fathom why the President will attack him over road projects. Recently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nana Addo lied about road contracts awarded by my gov&#039;t - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/21\/nana-addo-lied-about-road-contracts-awarded-by-my-govt\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nana Addo lied about road contracts awarded by my gov&#039;t - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former President, John Mahama has accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of falsifying facts and figures on road contracts awarded by his government before he left office. 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