The New Patriotic Party government has admitted including non-existent projects in the Delivery Tracker website.
In the Delivery Tracker, the government says it has constructed an astroturf in the Adenta Constituency as one of its achievements in infrastructural development.
Checks in the constituency, however, indicates that the said project does not exist.
The NDC at its 11th weekly address on Monday said it has identified hundreds of non-existent projects that the NPP government claimed to have undertaken in both the vice president’s presentation at the recently held town hall meeting and results fair and on the Delivery Tracker.
The party’s Communication Officer, Sammy Gyamfi presenting the non-existent projects listed the said Astroturf project as one of the non-existent projects the government claimed to have undertaken.
“The claim on government’s delivery tracker that the Akufo Addo-government has constructed an Astroturf in the Adenta constituency is another palpable falsehood, as no such project exists on the ground,” Mr. Sammy Gyamfi stated.
Admitting to the non-existence of the project, Communication Director of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and MP for the Adenta Constituency said the inclusion of the project on the Delivery Tracker was as a result of error.
The government, however, insists that the non-existence of the project does not discredit its numerous infrastructural projects on the delivery tracker.
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who is the Minister of Information maintained that the government has done incredibly well in infrastructural development even if all the claims of the hundreds of non-existent projects by the opposition party turn out to be true even though he dispelled the claims of the NDC.
“Even if you discount 334 (projects), there are still over 17 thousand infrastructural projects out there,” he said on Joy News TV.
Explaining what could have led to the inclusion of a non-existent project on the government official infrastructural projects website, the minister of information disclosed that “MMDCES forwarded in the data and it turned out to be inaccurate (even though) verifications were done, I’m sure they missed it.”
Mr. Oppong Nkrumah also took on the Opposition party for what he said is its inability to provide a database on the number of projects it has undertaken.
The NPP government has recently disclosed that it has initiated over 17,000 projects since it took over the reigns of governance in 2017. Out of the projects initiated, the government says over 8,000 of them have been completed with the remaining at various levels of completion. All the projects, it said has been initiated, are listed on a website called the delivery tracker which was launched by the government at a town hall meeting and results fair.
