Member of Parliament for Berekum West, Dickson Kyere-Duah, has accused the erstwhile Akufo-Addo government of failing to put measures in place to ensure the completion of the Jinijini-Sampa stretch This follows calls from residents of Jinijini urging the government to fix the deplorable stretch to Sampa in the Bono Region.
Speaking on Channel One TV's Breakfast Daily on Wednesday, he noted that the project stalled after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost power to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2016.
He claimed that the NDC had commenced the road's construction, completing the first layer, but the NPP government failed to follow through.
He alleged that the previous government failed to allocate funding and issue a commencement certificate to the contractor despite signing a contract for the project's completion just days before leaving office in 2024. "In 2015 and 2016, what we normally call the first coat was put on the surface.