“we have been deceived for long....' - Angry Hohoe residents charge

Some residents of Hohoe in the Volta Region on Wednesday vented their anger on the Minister of Roads and Highways, Inusah Fuseini over what they describe as a misrepresentation of the state of their roads in the President’s State of the Nation Address. President John Mahama announced in his State of Nation Address several road projects are ongoing in Hohoe to give the town roads a facelift. However, checks on Hohoe roads showed otherwise. The sector Minister, subsequently threw a challenge disputing the report hence the visit to the place. But the Minister was met by angry residents who described as mischievous the obvious misrepresentation of their situation presented to the President.

Some of the angry residents speaking to the Minister said “we have been deceived for long. We are not ready for such deceptions again.” “If they are ready to tell us anything, they should come to the road and do it. Where they initially showed you, it is Hohoe to Lolobi road, it’s not Hohoe town road. There are other Hohoe town roads they are not taking you to. The NDC people here are deceiving you. They should send you to the town road instead,” one of the residents vented.

 Another one added that the contractor working on the Hohoe town road [with name Gohez] had abandoned the project close to four years now but “he rushed to the chief earlier before your coming to convince the chief to talk well in his favour.” “Please they are not doing the town road so what the President said was false. He was totally misled,” he added.

 Meanwhile faced with the truth on the ground this is what the Minister had to say about the obviously abandoned project. “I have directed that they summon him to a meeting in Accra on Thursday for us to assess his capacity to complete the work. So if we are convinced that he lacks the capacity to complete the work, we might have to look for an alternative contractor to do the work,” the Roads Minister added.