According to Mr. Boakye Agyarko, the amount being quoted for infrastructural projects under President John Mahama defy every pricing policy.
Addressing the media at the NPP’s 'Broken promises encounter' in Accra Monday, he indicated that, the Mahama-led government has borrowed over 39 million dollars but has little to show for it.
“What it means is that Ghana would have developed three times as fast if it was handed to another president” he added.
Citing a six classroom block build by government to another built by telecommunications giant MTN to buttress his point, Mr. Agyarko said, it was a total rip-off.
“Under the Mahama administration, Nii Laryea Afortey Agbo, Greater Accra Minister inaugurated a six class room block at 510,000 cedis. Some 20 days later, MTN inaugurated a fully furnished six class room block at 170,000 cedis. Mahama cost of project was 200% more than what MTN did. It means the private sector can build three times less than what Mahama has built” he stressed.
He noted that every school built by Mahama means three times more could have been built, “for every teacher employed, the question is how many more teachers could have been employed. Kufuor built District hospitals for less”.
Mr. Boakye Agyarko indicated that, “Mahama's cost of infrastructure defies every pricing policy and will easily make it to the Guinness book of records”.