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NPP gov’t didn’t prioritize completion of Adenta footbridges – Inusah Fuseini

• By EDMOND GYEBI
• November 09, 2018
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Former Minister of Roads and Highways, Inusah Fuseini has accused the Akufo-Addo’s government of abandoning the completion of the footbridges on the main Adenta-Madina highway resulting in pedestrian killings.

According to the Tamale Central MP, government after being in office for close to two years now, should have completed the footbridges on the road considering the amount of work his administration did on the 5.7 kilometer stretch.

He said on a local radio station in Accra Friday, that the footbridges were not completed during his tenure as minister due to funding challenges but expected the new government to have prioritized the project, seeing through to its completion.

“Before I left office, it was only left with the footbridges we had to work on…..we did everything, the only safety mechanism left on the road was to complete the footbridges. This is why am saying that, if government had prioritized the project this wouldn’t have happened because I left all the documents with them and the ministry of highway knows about it. The contractor was on site working before I left the ministry and so if the contractor had been ordered and facilitated, enabled to go back to site, this death we are experiencing, wouldn’t have happened at all” he said.

He added that “The project was part of the “gang of four” which was started by President Kufour. It has no dedicated source of funding……during our time, on yearly basis, we allocate funds for the completion of the project. So I ask, 1st January 2017 to the end, how much was paid to the contractor to go and complete the outstanding work, on 1st January until now, how much was paid to the contractor to go back to site” he questioned.

This comes on the heels of Thursday’s protest by some angry residents of the area after a vehicle knock down a student of the West Africa Senior High School as she attempted closing the road right under the uncompleted footbridge.

Meanwhile, residents of both Adenta and Madina will on Monday November 12, 2018 stage a demonstration to drum home their long outstanding demand for the completion of six footbridges even after the Ministry of Roads and Highways has announced that work will begin in a week’s time.

Source: kasapafmonline.com