{"id":7184,"date":"2019-12-14T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2019-12-14T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:25:44","slug":"mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo","title":{"rendered":"Mahama’s roads were only in Green Book, not on the ground -Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his predecessor\u2019s much-touted unprecedented infrastructural development was only in the campaign brochure, the Green Book.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said at\u00a0a Meet The Press session on Friday that a lot of the so-called projects were not on the grounds as claimed by National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we have this major burden to discharge on how to bring our roads up to scratch. We have spent a lot of money on it, this year alone [paying over \u00a22 billion to contractors and giving them the wherewithal to do the work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said all the places he has visited since he came into office, the chiefs, opinion leaders and people only tell him to construct good roads for them.<\/p>\n

Former President Mahama while on the campaign trail in 2016 said, he\u00a0honoured his word by constructing roads and embarking on other developmental projects as promised earlier.
\n\u201cDuring my campaign in 2012, I realised that most of the roads here are very bad. I made the promise to invest heavily in roads here if I am elected President. I have kept my promise. Under the cocoa roads programme, most of the projects are in the Western Region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of roads in this region, are many, I cannot name them. I heard someone came here and said he had not seen these roads. I am sure he was sleeping at the time,\u201d Mr Mahama said.<\/p>\n

The President then, further revealed that his government had\u00a0constructed about 120 schools under the free SHS programme.<\/p>\n

This, Nana Akufo-Addo,\u00a0who took over from him, has disputed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember that a famous claim that was made that I was verbally slapped with \u2018unprecedented\u00a0infrastructural development\u2019 by\u00a0my opponent. And when I had the temerity to say that I have been travelling across the country and I had not\u00a0seen it, I was told it was because I was asleep in the back of my car.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what I discovered when I came into office was exactly what I knew in opposition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t speak like a lot of people do, just from sitting in Accra and being given statistics. I see it for myself because I am always travelling across the country…my Presidency is not about being immobilised here [Jubilee House] I am always on the road travelling and seeing things for myself,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He said that is why he is able to say with confidence that the issue of lack of infrastructure is being systematically addressed.
\nPresident Akufo-Addo said good roads will open up the country for further economic and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his predecessor\u2019s much-touted unprecedented infrastructural development was only in the campaign brochure, the Green Book. He said at\u00a0a Meet The Press session on Friday that a lot of the so-called projects were not on the grounds as claimed by National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer. \u201cSo we have this major burden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":7185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[4662,4661,499],"class_list":["post-7184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-green-book","tag-mahamas-roads","tag-president-nana-akufo-addo"],"yoast_head":"\nMahama's roads were only in Green Book, not on the ground -Nana Addo - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his predecessor\u2019s much-touted unprecedented infrastructural development was only in the campaign brochure, the Green Book.\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mahama's roads were only in Green Book, not on the ground -Nana Addo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his predecessor\u2019s much-touted unprecedented infrastructural development was only in the campaign brochure, the Green Book.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-14T13:25:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/3452567796429_8055633988852-610x400.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"610\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"francis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"francis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"francis\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/3687592f7713dc6c826cf5bbd0e55bca\"},\"headline\":\"Mahama’s roads were only in Green Book, not on the ground -Nana Addo\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-14T13:25:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo\"},\"wordCount\":448,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/3452567796429_8055633988852-610x400.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"green book\",\"Mahama's roads\",\"President Nana Akufo-Addo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahamas-roads-were-only-in-green-book-not-on-the-ground-nana-addo\",\"name\":\"Mahama's roads were only in Green Book, not on the ground -Nana Addo - 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