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Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency Chairman for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bismark Aborbi-Ayitey has said that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government have no right to cancel or suspend cocoa roads awarded under former President John Dramani Mahama’s administration.

He mentioned that the current government upon its professional auditing and investigations on awarded cocoa roads contracts did not find any fault with the project.

"President Akufo-Addo and his NPP has no locus to suspend or cancel any cocoa road, neither can they cancel premiums allocated cocoa farmers after spending over ten million Ghana cedis [GH¢10,000,000] to investigate cocoa roads contract, but found no fault with it,” he stated categorically.

In an interview on UTV’s late news discussion programme, the NDC Communicator asked government under President Akufo-Addo to explain to citizens the sector into which they have channeled the allocated percentage of syndicated cocoa funds to. 

"They should come and account to us because we want to know, it is in the same context that we are yet to know why cocoa bonuses have not been paid to cocoa farmers for the past three years, when there is a special fund endowed it," he said.

Bismark Aborbi-Ayitey argued that the current government cannot blame former President Mahama for any bad road in the country today.

“What is the sense in blaming former President Mahama for the bad roads we have in the country today after being in government for three years? Stop making reference to him [former President Mahama] and focus on the work to be done,” he advised.