The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has admitted there were some errors in the infrastructural achievement of the government but blames the errors on MMDCE’s who provided misleading information.
The New Patriotic Party(NPP) in giving an assessment of the stewardship since it took over power in 2017 at a Town Hall Meeting held at the Academy of Arts in Accra listed a number of infrastructural projects the party has embarked on.
The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has admitted there were some errors in the infrastructural achievement of the government but blames the errors on MMDCE’s who provided misleading information.
The New Patriotic Party(NPP) in giving an assessment of the stewardship since it took over power in 2017 at a Town Hall Meeting held at the Academy of Arts in Accra listed a number of infrastructural projects the party has embarked on.
However, some of the projects do not exist on the grounds after checks were made. One of the projects in contention is the supposedly complete AstroTurf in Adenta, a suburb of Accra.
National Communications Officer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has described the presentation on Infrastructure by the Vice President as “a cocktail of blatant falsehoods, ghost projects, and stolen projects”.
But speaking on Accra-based Joy News, the Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who indicated that the team that put the information together were misled said “Well, MMDCEs forward the dataset in…it turns out that it was inaccurate. Verifications were done and I’m sure they missed it”.
The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has admitted there were some errors in the infrastructural achievement of the government but blames the errors on MMDCE’s who provided misleading information.
The New Patriotic Party(NPP) in giving an assessment of the stewardship since it took over power in 2017 at a Town Hall Meeting held at the Academy of Arts in Accra listed a number of infrastructural projects the party has embarked on.
However, some of the projects do not exist on the grounds after checks were made. One of the projects in contention is the supposedly complete AstroTurf in Adenta, a suburb of Accra.
National Communications Officer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has described the presentation on Infrastructure by the Vice President as “a cocktail of blatant falsehoods, ghost projects, and stolen projects”.
But speaking on Accra-based Joy News, the Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who indicated that the team that put the information together were misled said “Well, MMDCEs forward the dataset in…it turns out that it was inaccurate. Verifications were done and I’m sure they missed it”.
Although acknowledging the flaws, the Minister maintained that the NPP government has performed better since taking over the governance of Ghana.
“Even if you took out that one or give or take the 26 that our colleagues in the NDC say that they had a challenge with, some of which I have seen tonight [and] even online, people go back to those places and say that ‘but that can’t be true’. We see these projects and put some of the videos online.”
To him, he expects his colleagues in the NDC to also make a list of such projects so they have done so that there can be a comparison indicating that the projects which are been disputed by the opposition are a small fraction of the entire verified projects.
“The challenge has been to the colleagues on the other side to produce a database of how many projects they have done so that you can do the comparisons.” “I am saying even if you discount 334, that is 17,000 infrastructure projects still out there.”