Political Analyst, Isaac Boateng known in media circles as Coach Opeele has dared the ruling government to publish the cocoa roads audit report if allegations levelled against the erstwhile Mahama administration are true.
“The government must now bring out findings from the cocoa roads audit report and knock out John Mahama. If they can’t do that now, the question then arises, ‘does it exonerate Mahama? he queried.
According to Coach Opeele, the country needs leaders who are committed to solving problems and questioned the government’s inaction on anomalies in the cocoa road contracts.
“If what they’re saying is true, why is the audit report still in parliament and why are we not seeing any actions being taken against the NDC”.
He believes ranking members of the NDC need to be jailed if they truly inflated contract cost for cocoa roads arguing that such an act equals criminality.
However, the columnist advised the ruling government to prove allegations of these inflated costs by publishing the audit report.
The Chief Executive Officer of Cocobod Joseph Boahen Aidoo has said that the Mahama administration did not give Ghanaians value for money in awarding contracts for the construction of cocoa roads over allegations of inflated cost among other wrongdoings.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP), therefore, halted the construction of the cocoa roads across the country in 2017 to complete its investigation.
The flagbearer of the NDC, John Mahama has dared the government to produce the said report adding that the government deliberately started reconstructing the roads a few months to the election for political gains.
