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Mensah Thompson, the executive director of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), has laughed off at the road promises made by the sector minister over the weekend, describing them as “cocktail of promises.”

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, said 6,000 out of 11,000 kilometres of road are to be completed under the government’s second Year of Roads programme.

Speaking at a press briefing in Accra on Sunday 23 May 2021, Amoako-Atta said that the 6,000 kilometres of road to be completed fall under critical, cocoa, town roads and asphalt overlay programmes and the Sinohydro Master Project Support Facility.

Speaking on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday 26 May, Thompson said Amoako-Atta was only “rehashing issues of roads that have been there since this government was given power.”

“I had to put off my TV set during his [Amoako-Atta] press conference… because the cocktail of propaganda was too much. He seems not to be taking his credibility seriously.

“After so much borrowing, we have not seen any roads, gutters, nothing! What we have been asking for is that, where is the money? On record you have shown that you [roads minister] cannot do anything… this government’s achievement in the road sector is in the president’s hometown and that of the minister’s,” the ASEPA boss claimed.