GHC570 million earmarked for cocoa roads too much - MP

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• PRINCE KWASI ADADE ( OFIE P33 ) 9 years ago

  AUTHOR: CLOSE OBSERVER-------- Stupid people are dominating our leadership positions. NDC does not believe that Ghanaians are suffering. Ghanaians will therefore not see the end of their problems until the USELESS NDC governm ...
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  AUTHOR: CLOSE OBSERVER-------- Stupid people are dominating our leadership positions. NDC does not believe that Ghanaians are suffering. Ghanaians will therefore not see the end of their problems until the USELESS NDC government is voted out in 2016. JOHN MAHAMA DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING AT THE PRESIDENCY. HE IS JUST CELEBRATING HIS POSITION LIKE AN AFRICAN MOVIE ACTOR. VOTE HIM AND HIS MEDIOCRE NDC GOVERNMENT OUT IN 2016. NDC NOW WANT MONEY FOR THEIR DIRTY POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, HENCE THE PRICE HIKE.

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• ABI 9 years ago

  MAHAMA IS WILL BURRY NPP FORVER IN POLITICS

  MAHAMA IS WILL BURRY NPP FORVER IN POLITICS

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• JIMMY CASH 9 years ago

  MAHAMA IS TOO WICKED TO NPP: NOW NPP HAS NO MASSAGE FOR US

  MAHAMA IS TOO WICKED TO NPP: NOW NPP HAS NO MASSAGE FOR US

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• CORNEY 9 years ago

  These people are the same people blaming the government that it has neglected the cocoa growing area roads but now that the government has allocated money for those roads this idiot is saying the money should rather pay for s ...
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  These people are the same people blaming the government that it has neglected the cocoa growing area roads but now that the government has allocated money for those roads this idiot is saying the money should rather pay for scholarships instead of roads.
  Some of these NPP people seem to have lost their minds,even a lunatic will not say something like that,these people belong to the animal race if there is one but not the human race.

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• JIMMY CASH 9 years ago

  REALLY NPP IS DEAD ALIVE

  REALLY NPP IS DEAD ALIVE

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• ABBA ATTA 9 years ago

  PRINCE KWASI ADADE, I FOUND AND READ THIS PDF BY THE WEST AFRICAN COMMISSION ON DRUG TITLED:State Officials and their Involvement in Drug Trafficking in West Africa Preliminary Findings
  THIS IS FROM PAGES 14 AND 15. CARE TO ...
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  PRINCE KWASI ADADE, I FOUND AND READ THIS PDF BY THE WEST AFRICAN COMMISSION ON DRUG TITLED:State Officials and their Involvement in Drug Trafficking in West Africa Preliminary Findings
  THIS IS FROM PAGES 14 AND 15. CARE TO READ? I HAVE NOT DELETED ANY PART OR ADDED ANY PLEASE.
  
  4.1 Ghana
  For example, during the 2008 parliamentary and presidential elections in Ghana, speculations were rife in well-informed quarters that drug money was funding key political players, including at least one of the more prominent presidential candidates.46 Raymond Kwame Amankwah, a notorious Ghanaian drug trafficker who is currently serving a 14 year-prison term at the Provisional Detention Centre at Caucaia in Brazil for drug trafficking, is reputed to have been a major donor to the then ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). When Amankwah was jailed in Brazil, the government seized his vast property in Ghana, pending further investigation. A few months later Nana Akufo-Addo, who had by then been nominated Attorney General –and subsequently presidential candidate for the NPP – quietly returned the property to Amankwah’s family.47 Leaked US diplomatic cables quoted frustrated British officials assisting the Ghanaian government in its efforts against drug trafficking under Operation Westbridge48 telling the Americans that the Ghanaians were now, as the crucial 2008 elections approached, “more indifferent to the narcotics issue than in 2006 and had made little progress to tackle this problem in the past year.”49
  Though always hard to prove, allegations that major political parties in Ghana are funded by drug traffickers are routinely traded between rival politicians, and these allegations sometimes appear credible. They are, in any case, not credibly denied. Even more important, the country’s two major parties have shown no interest in seriously reviewing the law governing party funding and elections, which are becoming increasingly expensive. Political party funding mechanisms are opaque; and, as a recent study argued, the increasing number of high-level officials and mid- and low-level public officials that have been found to be involved in drug trafficking and money laundering “indicates deep structural challenges and indications that crime is also being used in support of the political process.” Moreover, though “there have been positive results in investigating and prosecuting different cases involving mid- to high-level public officials implicated in drug–related offences, the majority have gone unpunished, seriously undermining the legitimacy of state institutions and providing limited disincentives for citizens not to engage in illicit activity.”50
  Significantly enough, some of the most dramatic cases in which officials have been prosecuted and punished have involved foreign assistance, including the DEA-supported ‘vetted unit’ in Ghana’s national drug control body – NACOB. An oft-cited example involves a Member of Parliament from a district north of Kumasi who had been trafficking heroin to the United States. He is now serving a sentence in that country, due to be released in 2014. According to Aning et al, it is highly likely that if he runs for office again, he would be widely backed by his constituency, who saw limited discredit in his illicit activities since he significantly reinvested in development initiatives in the area.51 Given that his sentence was served in the United States, it is unclear whether existing provisions preventing candidates with a criminal record from running for office would be observed.
  Another recent example relates to the case of Solomon Adelaquaye, the former managing director of the privately owned Sohin Security Company (which was responsible for security at the Kotoka International Airport). Adelaquaye was arrested and extradicted to New York in May 2013 where he was charged with conspiring to smuggle Afghan heroin to the US. Commenting on the arrest, an opposition parliamentarian took to the airvawes in Ghana claiming that the current National Democratic Congress (NDC) received significant electoral funding from Adelaquaye. The parliamentarian, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, of the opposition NPP and a presidential aspirant who himself has been accused by rivals of drug trafficking, told a local radio station that the NDC acronym should be read as “Narcotics Dealers Congress”.52 These allegations have not been confirmed and it is unlikely they will be; notwithstanding, the repeated failure on the part of political actors to put in place measures to protect the political process from illicit funding only serves to suggest that there is some truth in the allegations. The pitched media battle that followed the arrest of Adelaquaye also suggests that external assistance in support of special units such as NACOB, while welcome, is also insufficient; rather, this form of support needs to go hand-in-hand with efforts to deal with deeper structural challenges hampering the political process.

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• ABI 9 years ago

  NPP IS DEAD; IF ALL THESE STARTS NOW

  NPP IS DEAD; IF ALL THESE STARTS NOW

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• JIMMY CASH 9 years ago

  NPP DEAD ALIVE ALREADY

  NPP DEAD ALIVE ALREADY

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• Joel 9 years ago

  Mahama is making guys to bed wet these days prior to 2016 elections, folks. Mahama means development everywhere.

  Mahama is making guys to bed wet these days prior to 2016 elections, folks. Mahama means development everywhere.

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• Youngg Geniuss 9 years ago

  Mahama needs a good scale of preference.
  Apart from JM being corrupt & incompetent, he simply lacks the knowledge to initiate projects to move the economy forward.
  Say NO to JM and NDC if I care for the future well-being ...
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  Mahama needs a good scale of preference.
  Apart from JM being corrupt & incompetent, he simply lacks the knowledge to initiate projects to move the economy forward.
  Say NO to JM and NDC if I care for the future well-being of Ghana.

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• King 9 years ago

  All these projects will retain mahama
  Infact mahama is Kwame Nkrumah
  NPP will be doomed forever
  Even in the Ashanti region mahama will shock NPP .

  All these projects will retain mahama
  Infact mahama is Kwame Nkrumah
  NPP will be doomed forever
  Even in the Ashanti region mahama will shock NPP .

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• Grow up 9 years ago

  Before implementing any project get the cost evaluation right.. Nobody is against project.. Don't spend money for project that cost less in the name of development... Constructing feeder roads with some much money does not ma ...
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  Before implementing any project get the cost evaluation right.. Nobody is against project.. Don't spend money for project that cost less in the name of development... Constructing feeder roads with some much money does not make sense. How much did it cost Nkrumah for motorway... Ghana is bleeding because of senseless spending in the name of development.. People are suffering...

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• K Mensah 9 years ago

  Why is this government wasting the taxpayers money like this? GHC570 million for construction of feeder roads? Incredible|

  Why is this government wasting the taxpayers money like this? GHC570 million for construction of feeder roads? Incredible|

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• akwasi Agyei, adenta 9 years ago

  This is a 3- year program which will ends in 2018. Any party that wins the 2016 elections will continue it. This information our hon MP didn't give. Information on the contracts so far awarded is available at Ghana Highways a ...
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  This is a 3- year program which will ends in 2018. Any party that wins the 2016 elections will continue it. This information our hon MP didn't give. Information on the contracts so far awarded is available at Ghana Highways authority which can easily be accessed by our MP. We all need a better Ghana but our MPs shd always provide accurate and factual information to the electorate to help us analyze to be able to make choices from the various parties.

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• Alawa 9 years ago

  These cocoa Rds scheme came about as a result of mishandling of cocoa Rd projects by the roads ministries. The 2011/2012 cocoa Rds project was a failure due to mismanagement of funds and the projects by the ministries, hence ...
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  These cocoa Rds scheme came about as a result of mishandling of cocoa Rd projects by the roads ministries. The 2011/2012 cocoa Rds project was a failure due to mismanagement of funds and the projects by the ministries, hence this current initiative by the Cocoa Board. Now the the cocoa growing communities are getting their share of good roads. Go to Goaso, Dormaa Ahenkro, Wester Region, etc,etc.

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• Alawa,Contractor 9 years ago

  My parent and most relatives are Cocoa farmers. Now we are also enjoying the the asphalt produced by cocoa and its management.Go to Goaso, Dormaa, western Reg., parts of Central and Ashanti and stop the criticism on Cocoa Bo ...
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  My parent and most relatives are Cocoa farmers. Now we are also enjoying the the asphalt produced by cocoa and its management.Go to Goaso, Dormaa, western Reg., parts of Central and Ashanti and stop the criticism on Cocoa Board.)

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• Concerned Ghanaian 9 years ago

  The amount will be passed on to Lordina and NDC gurus for the NDC chop chop campaign. Tweeeeeaaa

  The amount will be passed on to Lordina and NDC gurus for the NDC chop chop campaign. Tweeeeeaaa

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