Between Veracity, Mendacity

All over Ghana, infrastructural works are being undertaken with an unusual gusto.

While some of them are on the verge of completion, others have been commissioned already.

On Tuesday, President Akufo-Addo commissioned the first phase of the Obetsebi Lamptey Interchange, to the relief of commuters and motorists.

The nightmarish traffic congestion which was the picture of the location until last Tuesday is the outcome of a concept by policymakers headed by President Akufo-Addo.

Commuters and motorists who have plied this part of Accra over the years were all full of praise for the President for accomplishing a project which has now eased their pain.

We have heard about how President Akufo-Addo as chief policymaker has insisted on changing the face of the country's infrastructure; something which continues to resonate in his remarks.

The 'Year of Roads' and other mantras are suggestive beyond doubt about how far the President wants to take his beloved Ghana.

We cannot but laud the first gentleman for his commitment to the development of this country which has led to Ghana readying herself to be the first country in West Africa to host the first four-tier interchange, following in the heels of South Africa at the continental level.

Only visionary leaders are able to conceptualise ideas and implement them within the allotted time.

Tamale and Takoradi, both regional capitals, have not been left out of the infrastructural development being dished out by President Akufo-Addo.  The two cities will have new features on their skylines when the two interchanges being constructed there are completed.

Only those who have deliberately turned their back on the realities of the physical developments taking place in the country would claim that nothing is happening.

These are tangible developments and verifiable as they are, have changed the faces of the locations they are being constructed.

If so much has been achieved within four years, it can only be imagined what will come the way of a country which for most part of her post-independence history was ruled by the P(NDC), a junta and party preoccupied with ruses of winning elections.

Even the few infrastructural legacies credited to the opposition party when it was at the helm were sources of massive financial hemorrhage to the state.

When the phase two of the Obetsebi Lamptey Interchange and the Pokuase four-tier interchange are completed, Ghana would definitely be catapulted to an enviable notch in development rankings in Africa.

We continue to march to the promised land of progress. If the tangible developments the country is witnessing is deserving of plaudits for the government, the intangible and crucial Free SHS should have Ghanaians singing Hallelujah to the Almighty God for making what many thought was impossible come true.

The notorious cocoa roads in the Western Region for which the NDC claimed to have used so much money to enhance are now receiving genuine and verifiable attention.

We recall the NDC flag bearer, then President John Mahama, telling Nana Akufo-Addo sarcastically that he could not see the good roads in the Western Region because he was sleeping.

Today, it has become clear that President Akufo-Addo was sincere in his observation when he said that the roads in the Western Region through which he traveled when he was campaigning were not in good shape.

Politics is about service to the people and those who seek to be elected must exhibit proof of ability to serve the people.

In next month's elections, the people of Ghana are fortunate to have the scorecards of the two main candidates and therefore able to make informed choices.

The polls are about verifiable and tangible performance on one hand and incompetence and hypocrisy on the other.