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November 20, 2019
Former Volta Regional Minister Helen Adjoa Ntoso, has said the Minority Volta caucus is going to monitor the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta to see if government would do by its words after omitting the region in critical roads and coming back to amend it.
“It’s good he came back to amend the 2020 budget, we are going to monitor religiously as to whether he just came in to flatter us”, she said in an interview just after the Finance Minister finished presenting his amendment.
She was of the view that roads budgeted for, for the period 2017 to 2019 we’re never fulfilled in the region.
“He is saying they are priority road, we would see if they would work on the roads he came back to the House and added, you came and presented the budget and now you have come to do some addition that it was an oversight”.
She further questioned if money is available or the Minister is going to get money from somewhere to construct the roads, adding that it is one think talking about doing it and actualized it. “We are waiting for him to get the funds to be able to do those projects”.
“Those he mentioned have been budgeted for, this one has not been budgeted for so we are waiting and as to whether they would go back to the chiefs to inform them of the new development they talk about at their press conference”.
The former Minister noted that with the advent of social media, the chiefs and people of the Volta Region had gotten the message of the retune of the Finance Minister to do the needful, because it was the same way they got the information when he left the Region out on critical roads in the budget.
Again I am told the contractor working from Hohoe to Jasikan has been told to go back to work but the issue is that he has not been paid the work he has done so far for them to ask him to go back. There was a Chinese contractor working from Asikuma to Kpeve for three years now we have not seen the contractor.
Since next year is an election year we would see what happens across the Oti Region, the roads are bad we have not seen anything we are waiting, she concluded.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com