{"id":77425,"date":"2014-12-26T12:42:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T12:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=77425"},"modified":"2014-12-26T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T12:42:51","slug":"nkrumah-interchange-misplaced-priority-nana-konadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=77425","title":{"rendered":"Nkrumah interchange is misplaced priority &#8211; Nana Konadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former First lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings says the interchange project at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle is a misplaced priority.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, money being spent on the construction could have been used to complete the Suhum-Nsawam road which is in a deplorable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of the National Democratic Party (NDP) in an interview with Accra based TV 3 admitted that the vehicular traffic at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle was unbearable to commuters but insisted that the project could have been undertaken at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;eSLMbbAvhCMuVwMMqiu2P9KQ9XuDkYCs&#8221;]\u201cI know that it can get a little choked but I also compare whatever we are doing there to the road between Suhum and its environs and I ask myself why would we not finish this rather than come and start a new project all together,\u201d she remarked.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, road constructions play an important role in the socio-economic development of the nation saying, \u201croad constructions are good but it is the most urgent thing? Is that the priority at the moment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She bemoaned the haphazard undertaking of various projects which later tend to be abandoned is indicative of poor planning on the part of government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s as if we are not planning,\u201d she complained, adding that \u201cthese are the things we need to access before we go into the infrastructural thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Rawlings was certain that the funds being used to construct the project \u201ccould have given us water in Accra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/circle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77427\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/circle2.jpg\" alt=\"Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/circle2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/circle2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She however clarified that her comments should not be misconstrued to mean the project is not necessary but \u201cis it urgent at the moment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the long run, it may be necessary but at the time when it was started, something else could have been done with that money,\u201d she maintained.<\/p>\n<p>The Kwame Nkrumah Circle is a key intersection in Accra which carries about 84,000 vehicles a day.<\/p>\n<p>It constitutes a key bottleneck in the major road network that links the suburban areas of Accra to the central business district.<\/p>\n<p>The project is being funded with a loan from the Brazilian government and being executed by Queiroz Galvao, a Brazilian company, is estimated at 74 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former First lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings says the interchange project at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle is a misplaced priority. According to her, money being spent on the construction could have been used to complete the Suhum-Nsawam road which is in a deplorable condition. The founder of the National Democratic Party (NDP) in an interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77426,"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":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-77425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77425","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}