NDC Has Superior Road Records In Ashanti Region Than NPP — Abass Nurudeen

Comrade Abass Nurudeen, the Ashanti Regional Communication Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has emphasized that the party has a better record in provision of roads compared to the New Patriotic Party in the Region.

He made this known during a press conference in Kumasi to hit back at what he described as lies spewed by the Road Minister, Hon. Kwasi Amoako Atta during his recent tour of the Region.

According to the NDC Communicator, the Roads Minister’s claim that apart from the construction of 100km-stretch of Kumasi roads between (1984-1989), nothing has since been done on roads in the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area by successive governments including the late Mills and Mahama administrations is false and very scandalous.

Comrade Abass Nurudeen defends that the Mills/Mahama administration alone constructed more than 400km stretch of roads within the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area as he gives details of 19 roads and where they were constructed.

While the NDC Communicator makes several responses to claims by Hon. Kwasi Amoako Atta, he has also stressed that the Akufo-Addo government has little to show in terms of development in the Ashanti Region even though they have been the most resourced government in the fourth republic.

“The time has, therefore, come for the good people of the Ashanti Region to rise up and demand their fair share of the national cake from a party which lays claim to this region as their stronghold. Gone are the days when the Ashanti Region was only famed as being the electoral fortress of the New Patriotic Party, with very little in terms of development to show for that support. Enough of the tokenism, enough of the lip service, the Ashanti Region deserves better from the NPP”, Comrade Abass Nurudeen noted.

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