Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has refuted claims made by certain NDC Members of Parliament that they had a hand in the equipment acquisition for the District Road Improvement Project (DRIP).
Under the DRIP, the government has sent excavators and other earthmoving equipment in order to upgrade the country’s roadways.
A few parliamentarians have attempted to clarify that their share of the District Assemblies Common Fund was used to carry out the project.
However, Dr. Bawumia made it clear that Parliament was not involved in the program’s execution when he spoke at a durbar at the Awubia Festival of the people of Awutu Bereku in Awutu Senya West.
He explained that he proposed its implementation on a committee he chaired sometime back.
“On that committee which I chaired, the critical roads committee, I came up with the idea that we should buy equipment to help every district construct roads in Ghana. So we were to buy all districts excavators, rollers, graders, backhoes, tipper trucks and so on. This was an idea from my committee. It has nothing to do with Parliament.
“It has nothing to do with Parliament. We came up with the idea, we funded that. It didn’t go to Parliament for any approval so nobody should come and claim that they were responsible for all the equipment that we have sent to every district in this country.”
“This was the committee that I chaired. We came up with that idea and I made sure that we bought all of this equipment and we have taken it to every district in Ghana. So nobody should come and lie about it.”