{"id":1179115,"date":"2022-08-15T19:35:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/15\/ashaiman-left-out-in-year-of-roads-npp-polling-station-executives-petition-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T19:35:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:35:22","slug":"ashaiman-left-out-in-year-of-roads-npp-polling-station-executives-petition-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/15\/ashaiman-left-out-in-year-of-roads-npp-polling-station-executives-petition-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashaiman left out in Year of Roads &#8211; NPP polling station executives petition Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Ashaiman left out in Year of Roads - NPP polling station executives petition Akufo-Addo\" title=\"Ashaiman left out in Year of Roads - NPP polling station executives petition Akufo-Addo\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>NPP\u2019s polling station executives in Ashaiman have petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to address the bad road network in the Ashaiman Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>The group stated that the Ashaiman Constituency has been neglected in Year of Roads project.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, they have petitioned President Akufo-Addo since July, but have received no response.<\/p>\n<p>This, they claimed is because the Ashaiman Constituency is more of a National Democratic Congress (NDC) dominated constituency.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/197fIx0gXs3sEotjWazCgEEcuoi-xU1du\/preview\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are genuine concerns and suspicion of deliberate neglect of the people of Ashaiman (for being an NDC \u2018stronghold\u2019) from government\u2019s \u201cYear of roads\u201d project which saw a boom in the road sector since its inception in 2020, 2021 and 2022 all have been declared the second and third years of roads, yet, apart from the Ashaiman Pink Lady and Jericho roads constructed under the \u201cOne Million Dollar per Constituency\u201d program, and a few other IGF projects, not a single road in Ashaiman has seen an inch of asphaltic overlay in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Coalition, \u201cthe town is really dusty in the dry season and muddy in the wet season\u201d as a result of the constituency\u2019s neglect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe health implications of air pollution due to dust, coupled with the socioeconomic impact of bad roads on the local economy have conspired to rid our beloved city of the development it needs,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The group stated that if the issues and grievances noted in the petition are \u201cnot treated with a sense of urgency would have dire consequences on our future electoral fortunes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPP\u2019s polling station executives in Ashaiman have petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to address the bad road network in the Ashaiman Constituency. The group stated that the Ashaiman Constituency has been neglected in Year of Roads project. According to them, they have petitioned President Akufo-Addo since July, but have received no response. This, they claimed is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1179118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[648,6736,3017,951,7025,4668,9910,3495,2790,293],"class_list":{"0":"post-1179115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-akufoaddo","9":"tag-ashaiman","10":"tag-executives","11":"tag-left","12":"tag-npp","13":"tag-petition","14":"tag-polling","15":"tag-roads","16":"tag-station","17":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}