The Greater Accra Regional Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Anthony Nukpenu, has taken a swipe at the chiefs and people of the Volta Region for giving audience to President Akufo-Addo.
Mr. Nukpenu could not understand why the chiefs in particular would welcome the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the region with smiles rather than asking him certain critical questions.
Maddened by the development, Mr. Nukpenu accused the chiefs to have been bribed with a meagre sum of Ghs100, and that induced them to give the President a rousing welcome and would not ask him for development projects.
"The Volta regional chiefs have disappointed some of us. How could they welcome the President the way they did when after more than one year in power not a kilometre has been added to the Eastern Corridor road? Are they happy being given Ghs100 to the detriment of the poor nature of their roads?" Nukpenu angrily roared.
Anthony Nukpenu said this on Asempa FM's Ekosii Sen talk show on Friday, 13th July, 2018. He was contributing to the topic related to the President's tour of the Volta Region in the course of the week.
President Akufo-Addo, in his tour of the region, discovered that the much touted unprecedented road infrastructural projects the NDC talked about was nothing but a packaged lie as the realities on the ground are a far cry from the noise the NDC made prior to the 2016 general elections.
The NDC had made lots of noise about the construction of the Eastern Corridor road. The President was confronted with some situation worlds apart from what Mahama and his charges had said. To President Akufo-Addo's dismay, no work was done on the Eastern Corridor road contrary to what President Mahama and his people had claimed.
Asempa FM's Ekosii Sen programme hosted by Osei Bonsu was discussing the President's tour and other topics, and that led to Nukpenu attacking the chiefs of the Volta Region as worshipping mediocrity by accepting Ghs100 instead of asking for their roads to be constructed.
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