Our projects cost less, provide value for money – Veep

• Posted on August 19, 2020August 19, 2020
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said apart from the pursuit of an inclusive infrastructural development for all, the government is also focused on delivering the best value for money for all the projects.

He compared projects undertaken under the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo from 2017 till now to those undertaken between 2012 and 2016 under former President John Mahama, saying they revealed staggering disparities in the value of similar projects.

He said the cost of projects undertaken by the Mahama government appeared quite outrageous.

Townhall meeting, Results fair

Dr Bawumia, who was speaking on the government’s record on infrastructure at a town hall meeting at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in Accra last night, which was carried live on television and social media platforms, said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government was constructing four major interchanges in Tema, Pokuase, Tamale and at the Obetsebi-Lamptey Circle at a cost of $289 million.

Meanwhile, he said, the Mahama administration built the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange alone at a staggering cost of $260 million.

The programme, which was part of the Results Fair organised by the Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Information, was attended by the Vice-President’s wife, Mrs Samira Bawumia, Ministers of State, members of the Diplomatic Corps, traditional rulers and some NPP stalwarts.

The event took off with a documentary on infrastructural development from 2017 to 2020.

It was centred on developments in the road sector, bridges and interchanges, railways and the Kumasi and the Tamale airports.

The 25-minute documentary also touched on the government’s developments in the health sector, including rural health, as well as the provision and distribution of more than 300 ambulances to every constituency across the country.

Participants in the event were made to observe all the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) protocols, including the wearing of nose masks and social distancing.

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