DRIP is not new, Mahama introduced it in 2016 – Ahmed Ibrahim

The Minority in Parliament has tagged the government’s District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP) project as the brainchild of the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama.

President Akufo-Addo on Wednesday, July 31, launched the District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP) intervention and commissioned essential equipment aimed at enhancing the country’s road networks.

However, the Minority asserts that Mahama first launched the project in July 2016, and it led to issues such as the sale of equipment by state officials in the Bono Region, causing confusion among the local population.

In an interview with Citi News, the First Deputy Minority Whip in Parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim said the government must learn from previous mistakes.

“We brought it. President Mahama launched the District Road Improvement Programme in July 2016. He brought all the road and earthmoving machines and two months ago, the Bono Regional Minister, together with the Bono people, sold all those machines that President Mahama brought and it brought confusion in Sunyani.

“Then the NPP communicators in Sunyani, in Bono region met and said they were demonstrating against what their minister and the elders have done. And they were asking about the whereabouts of the equipment that Mahama brought for road construction.

“So this was Mahama’s brainchild. It is nothing new. So now that we are rejuvenating the same policy, let’s do it well and learn lessons from the previous policy.”

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