{"id":246349,"date":"2016-09-07T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=246349"},"modified":"2016-09-07T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T06:00:52","slug":"i-need-a-2nd-term-to-finish-work-on-bad-roads-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/i-need-a-2nd-term-to-finish-work-on-bad-roads-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"I need a 2nd term to finish work on bad roads \u2013 Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"

President John Dramani Mahama has urged Ghanaians to give him a second term mandate to among other things enable him complete construction works on some bad roads in the country.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Metro TV\u2019s Good Evening Ghana on Tuesday, Mr. Mahama explained that, \u00a0although government has done considerably well in road infrastructure, there is still more that needs to be done.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”II7gsUWBMIqGqxuf8p518B3fUtq9wRnx”]He noted that his government has allocated an amount of $150 million every year to construct roads in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still bad roads and we are going to come to them as we finish these. The thing is to have a programme which is what we have; and I have said that, we are injecting 150 million for five years into the six cocoa growing regions. And so as the contractors finish they are being given other roads to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when I say I have done roads it doesn\u2019t mean that you should go and look for a bad road somewhere and say but President Mahama there is a bad road here, yes, we will come to it. That is why I deserve a second term to be able to do those roads you are complaining about,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Demo over bad roads<\/strong><\/p>\n

There have been series of demonstrations staged by some Ghanaians in recent times in protest against bad\u00a0road networks.<\/p>\n

Some areas of these areas include East Ashiyie, in the Adentan Municipality, Ashaiman, Bolgatanga, Hamile in the Lambusie Karni District of the Upper West Region among others.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve improved roads<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Mahama said his government has improved many roads ever since he took over the administration of the\u00a0country.<\/p>\n

\"Mahama<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve improved in the area of roads. We are doing a lot of massive work when it comes to the road network.”<\/p>\n

He said when he went around campaigning in 2008 and 2012, he observed that a lot of the roads in the country were in very bad shape \u201cand any chief I went to complained that the major issue they had was the road network; so I decided that we must do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we have three sources of funding; the government of Ghana budget which is approved by parliament every year. And we also introduced the cocoa roads improvement programme of which we take 150 million dollars every year from the cocoa floatation and we dedicate it to improving roads in the six cocoa growing regions. And then the third source of income is the enhanced road fund which was passed as part of the energy levy and under that we have identified strategic roads in the country and we are paying to improve those roads,\u201d Mahama added.<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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