'Wicked' Mahama starved Ashanti Region of development projects during his administration – NPP

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has tagged former President John Dramani Mahama as the worst-performing President in terms of infrastructural development in the Ashanti Region.

The NPP at a press conference on Thursday October 20, 2022 at Kumasi described Mr Mahama as the most "wicked” President for starving the Ashanti Region of development.

The Communications Director for the Ashanti Region, Dennis Kwakwa maintained that John Mahama should be solely held responsible for the recent outcry by some residents in the region over low infrastructural projects.

Touching on education, Dennis Kwakwa said the Akufo-Addo lead government has embarked on over 207 different school projects in the Ashanti Region.

"Putting the free Senior High School policy aside, the NPP's development drive in the education sector alone is unparalleled compared to the mediocre projects the NDC claimed to have done.

"Mr Mahama who claimed to have outperformed President Akufo-Addo could only manage just 29 school projects across the country which culminated in only 696 classrooms but the underperforming NPP government has constructed 69 three unit classroom blocks, 175 six unit classroom blocks, one eight unit classroom blocks, 193 twelve unit classroom blocks, 11 eighteen unit classroom blocks totaling 3744 classrooms for the Ashanti Region alone in just four years, and we believe the good people of the region are the better judges," he stated.

Mr Kwakwa however said this calculation is done without adding the ongoing works on the creative arts school at Kwadaso, J.A Kufuor Model School at Dabaa and other STEM schools in the Bosomtwe Constituency.

“Let me add without equivocation that [the NDC is] the government that has proven to be the greatest political scam in the history of the 4th Republic as far as we the people in the Ashanti are concerned," he stressed.

He commended President Akufo-Addo for putting the Ashanti Region at heart by providing the needed infrastructure to enhance the livelihood of the people.