{"id":204884,"date":"2016-04-06T19:18:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=204884"},"modified":"2016-04-06T19:18:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:18:20","slug":"kufuor-hits-back-at-mahama-over-volta-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=204884","title":{"rendered":"Kufuor hits back at Mahama over Volta record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following President John Mahama’s claim that the\u00a0New Patriotic Party (NPP) did nothing substantive in terms of\u00a0development projects in the\u00a0Volta Region during their tenure, former President John Agyekum Kufuor has rubbished the President’s claims by putting forth his administration’s achievements in the region.<\/p>\n

President Mahama recently accused the NPP<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>of sidelining the Volta Region as far as infrastructural development was concerned.<\/p>\n

The President\u00a0strongly defended the record of the NDC in the Volta Region, saying that the party was responsible for all the massive projects that the region has seen since the inception of the fourth republic.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”PeV3o4XQniJkUCWFjzBkr6NkmkutzolP”]President Mahama has previously\u00a0challenged the NPP to indicate \u00a0the projects they \u00a0executed during their 8-year tenure, and\u00a0it appears former President Kufuor has stepped up to the president\u2019s challenge by touting his achievements in the region during his eight year tenure.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kufour, who was speaking at his residence in Accra when the newly elected NPP MP for Abuakwa North paid a courtesy call on him, said his interventions in the Volta Region are uncountable.<\/p>\n

NDC squandered money meant for the Keta Sea Defense project\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

He also accused the NDC of squandering money meant for the development of the Volta Region particularly in their handling of the Keta Sea Defense Project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey claim we did nothing in the Volta Region. Let\u2019s start from Keta. The money they acquired for the sea defense wall, they squandered it. It was during my tenure that we constructed the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also drew attention to the fact his government constructed the Ho Polytechnic and roads from\u00a0Nkonya through to Dambai.<\/p>\n

\u201cHo Polytechnic was built by us. Even the University of Ghana envies this school. Go to Nkonya through to Dambai. We constructed all those roads in the first term of the NPP.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former President also bemoaned the fact\u00a0Ghana has returned to the IMF due to the government’s mismanagement of the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn three years, we were able to take Ghana from the IMF. Now we are back here again…During my tenure, Ghanaians abroad always wanted to come back home but this is no longer the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following President John Mahama’s claim that the\u00a0New Patriotic Party (NPP) did nothing substantive in terms of\u00a0development projects in the\u00a0Volta Region during their tenure, former President John Agyekum Kufuor has rubbished the President’s claims by putting forth his administration’s achievements in the region. President Mahama recently accused the NPP of sidelining the Volta Region as far […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}