A United States-based economist, Dr. Sa-ad Iddrisu, is questioning the developmental projects listed in NPP’s recently launched Performance Tracker.
In a press release issued on Thursday, April 18, 2024, Dr. Iddrisu said, ‘Despite borrowing over 600 billion Gh cedis in the last eight (8) years, the NPP government seems to only boast about the number of completed toilet projects in its recently launched performance tracker.’
Dr. Iddrisu also added that some of the toilet projects captured as government projects were projects executed by local assemblymen, without government funding.
‘It’s even more concerning that toilets funded and completed by local Assemblymen in their areas are being falsely presented as government achievements in the last eight years,’ he said.
He also bemoaned why the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government didn’t deliver on substantive infrastructural projects and rather chose only toilets.
‘In a country where access to essential services like portable drinking water, stable electric
ity supply, efficient healthcare system, and motorable roads are still lacking, one would have thought any reasonable government would focus its priorities on these rather than trumpet toilets as its accomplishment,’ Dr. Iddrisu said.
He added that, ‘On the performance tracker’s website, over 100 toilet facilities have been listed to have a 100% completion rate, compared to only three (3) regional hospitals listed as 100% completed’.
Source: Ghana Web
