Source: newsthemegh.com
The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi) request to the government to expedite procedures for the start of work on the Suame Interchange has disappointed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region.
According to the NDC, Chairman Wontumi’s argument shows that the NPP has nothing to offer the residents of the Ashanti Region in terms of infrastructure.
The Suame Interchange project, according to the NPP administration, is still a top priority for the Ashanti Region’s citizens, thus government should give it top priority in order to complete it.
But in response to Chairman Wontumi’s appeal, Augustus Kwesi Andrews, the NDC’s chairman for Ashanti Region, claims the government has let down the people of Ashanti Region.
“What Chairman Wontumi is doing has me quite disappointed. We all know that the NPP’s base is the Ashanti Region, and now the NPP chairman is pleading with his own administration to expedite projects there. This demonstrates how the NPP is assuming too much from the populace. They went begging in Kumawu, and we are all aware of the outcomes there. They are gradually falling behind the NDC in the Ashanti Region.
In his appeal, Chairman Wontumi stressed the project’s importance to the Ashanti Region’s residents and the need for the Akufo-Addo administration to give it first priority.
Although President Akufo-Addo turned the first sod for the project in October 2022, construction has not yet started. Once completed, the project will include a four-tier interchange at the present Suame Roundabout, as well as overpasses at the junctions of Abrepo, Krofrom, Anomangye, Magazine New Road, and Abusuakruwa. After the Pokuase Interchange in the Greater Accra Region, it will be the second four-tier interchange in the nation and the first in the Ashanti Region.