News:
November 4, 2025
The John Dramani Mahama led administration has promised to address road infrastructure deficit, as a campaign promise in their manifesto through a major intervention christened “The Big Push” and has started rolling out road constructions nationwide.
This, the Ranking member on Roads and Transport, Kennedy Osei Nyarko said unlike the Majority National Democratic Congress (NDC) who sabotage them in government in implementing some of their policies, they (the current Minority will lend their support to the “big push” initiative for the benefit of Ghana.
According to him the difference between the NPP and the NDC is that the NPP does not sabotage projects no matter what was done to us in government. “We are not going to do that unless the project is not going to benefit the people of Ghana and we see infractions, we would raise our voice, at the end of the day it would benefit us all”, he said in an interview with Ghanamps.com.
And further noted that the road infrastructure would need more funding to be implemented but if they want to depend on Government of Ghana funding they would fail.
And as a Committee their work is to play an oversight role and the ten billion dollars the NDC government want to invest in big push for four years is different from the budgetary allocation to the sector.
“Government should have invested two point five billion dollars under the big push, and they push their hope in the oil revenue and recently they came up with thirty-two projects that they want to fund. And we, in the Minority on the committee, we are of the view that these funds would not be sufficient; and if you have this kind of money why not use on projects that have not been concluded”.
According to him, this would have been a better option, adding that every party has justification for abandoning projects started by previous regimes, and it is Ghana that suffers.
Mr. Osei-Nyarko added that as a country we have allowed politics to cloud our judgment and that has resulted in so many uncompleted projects across the country.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com