Deputy director of communication for the New Patriotic Party, Ernest Owusu-Bempah Bonsu, says the amount of money spent on constructing the circle interchange, could have been used to build modernised and better infrastructure.
Speaking in an interview with Kwaku Dawuro, on Movement In The Morning, on Movement TV/Wontumi radio, Owusu Bempah emphatically stated that the National Democratic Congress during their tenure of office, spent $280million on the circle interchange which was not worth it. According to him, such an amount has been well utilised by the current ruling party (NPP), by constructing better and proper roads infrastructure and interchanges in the country.
He said that ”NDC spent $280million for just the poorly constructed circle interchange when they came into power, which could have been used to construct a modernised road infrastructure with a car park and a proper drainage system.
When Nana Addo’s government came into power, we have been able to use the same amount of money to construct four interchanges, such as Pokuase interchange which is four tier and the biggest in Africa and also has dual carriage system. Now comparing it to circle interchange should tell you it is just a fraction of it.”
Furthermore ”If you check Tema and Tamale interchanges and combine the cost involved, it is the same as Kwame Nkrumah interchange which John Mahama boasts of it to be unprecedented in the history of the green book.”