An ex Deputy Roads and Roads Minister Hon Owusu Oduomi has openly confessed how the New Patriotic Party(NPP) regardless of declaring the year 2021/2022 can be seriously struggling to fund these projectsPresident Nana Addo declared Year of Streets after he was maintained a second term during the common elections with the aim of repairing deplorable roads in the country. Several roads have since already been fixed while others that were granted on contract have been deserted by the contractors because accreditation they raised for months have never been honoured in the wake up of debtors chasing all of them for goods taken upon credit among others. The Former Person in Parliament (MP) for Ejisu and Ashanti Regional Leader hopeful admits that Leader Akufo-Addo’s government is desperate for money in order to pay companies. Speaking on Oyerepa Fm Morning Show monitored simply by MyNewsGh. com, he described that government needs additional money to enable them to implement the year associated with roads promise. “The the truth is that government does not have cash to pay contractors, which they have got admitted. That’s another reason for your introduction of E-levy; in order to offset these debts” Oduomi revealed. “The major problem in the Ashanti region is certainly our roads. Take Kwabre roads for example. The truth is street projects have been awarded in the area. If I tell you the number of agreements you’d be amazed. I used to be recently preparing a screenplay for Kyei Mensah in support of 8 percent of our streets are in good condition. Our streets are bad, to say the least. We require huge money to fix all of them. The government owes contractors filling up just potholes, that’s exactly how bad the situation is” he or she lamented. “I don’t discover why Ghanaians blame contractors whenever roads are abandoned simply by contractors because the government is unsucssesful to pay the contractors”. He or she added “Government has granted the majority of roads in Ashanti Region but the problem is the federal government doesn’t have money to support or even pay the contractors”Source: MyNewsGh. com/2022Send your news tales to [email protected] and via WhatsApp upon +233 202452509