His cocoa roads projects led to the construction of our major cocoa roads which have abandoned for decades.
He accused the incumbent government of suspending most of the roads under
the cocoa roads project introduced by the Mahama - led government.
Ibrahim Mahama was contracted under the erstwhile NDC government to execute various projects, notable among them being the construction of a field to house the Ameri power plant, and his alleged involvement in
some cocoa road projects.
Total budgetary allocation of GH cents 1.64 billion was earmarked for
the cocoa roads project between 2014/2015 and 2016/2017 whilst the NDC Government awarded contracts to the tune of GHC5.16 billion.
Not exact matches
«[But] after 15 months into the government of NPP, I dare them [to] show one contract under the
cocoa road [
project] that has been inflated or that has wrongly been awarded.»
These are the obstacles president Mahama and the NDC government are eliminating by going for loans and investing in them infrastructure like the Kwame Nkrumah circle interchange (which Manasseh believes deserve no praise), Kasoa interchange, the
cocoa roads, 123 new community day shs, the eastern region university, the 4 regional hospitals, the district hospitals being constructed nationwide (he should go to Dodowa and see how they are benefitting from their new district hospital), the Takoradi railway
project, etc..
The
Cocoa Roads Project aims at improving
road networks in
cocoa communities with the view to ensuring access to remote
cocoa areas as well as creating a congenial environment to promote the livelihoods of
cocoa farmers.
This, they say, is evident in the cancellation of some
road projects, challenges with
cocoa mass spraying exercise, and replacement of free fertilizers with subsidized ones.
President Mahama told the people that there were plans in place to ensure that all
cocoa - growing regions in the country benefitted from COCOBOD
road construction
projects.