The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) said it will in coming days drag the Roads and Highways Minister Kwesi Amoako Attah to Parliament to answer questions on the outcome of audit done on some cocoa roads last year.
The minority at a press conference on Tuesday, called on the Roads and Highways Minister to make the findings of the $10m Cocoa audit, if indeed an audit was conducted.
It would be recalled that last year, Cocobod had commissioned an audit in all Cocoa road projects to find out among other things, if the projects were overpriced. The Mahama administration was accused of awarding over 230 different road contracts to the tune of GHc3.5 billion under the project, to the detriment of COCOBOD’s finances. But the reports were not made public.
But the Minority is contesting those claims against the erstwhile administration and demanding that the report be made public for Ghanaians access. To buttress his point, the ranking on Roads and Transport Committee and MP for Adaklu Governs Kwame Agbodza said, under Mahama administration, 2150km of roads under the Cocoa roads project was awarded for a total of 5 billion Ghana cedis while today, 4000km roads under Nana Addo’s government has ballooned to 14 billion Ghana cedis, alleging padding of figures on the part of present administration.
“How the NPP is able to convince Ghanaians that our (NDC) contracts are padded and theirs (NPP) are not, beat my imagination”
“How can somebody awards project just over 2000km for 2 billion and you are awarding 4000km for 14 billion, do you know what the problem is, the President and his Vice have told us that hotels and landlords cannot charge rent in dollars, but Cocobod is awarding contract to Ghanaians in dollars in Ghana, so this government cannot be trusted along those lines”
“So when someone said he is going to build 20 interchanges in 4 years, you know how to call that person“, he concluded.