According to the Vice President, the interchange cost $260 million but the NDC has accused Dr. Bawumia of adding “the cost of two separate and distinct projects; the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange and the Ring Road Flyover” to arrive at the amount he quoted.
“This mischief which was peddled by no less a person than the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana is shameful and reprehensible to say the least,” Mr. Gyamfi said.
“The scope of work of the two projects are totally different, and so it is disingenuous and shameful for Dr. Bawumia to lump the cost of the two projects together and create the impression that same is inflated.”
The NDC however maintains that the cost of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange project as approved by Parliament and expended by the contractor was $90 million at the time adding that, the Mahama government on October 1, 2014 presented to Parliament an “export credit facility for the design and construction of another project; the Ring Road Flyover-at a cost of $170 million.”
“This fact is contained in the Parliamentary Hansard of 16thAugust 2012, when the transaction was approved by the 5thParliament of Ghana, with the full participation and approval of the then NPP Minority,” Mr. Gyamfi said.
Mr. Gyamfi stressed that “if Bawumia has any modicum of respect for Ghanaians, he will honourably do the needful by retracting and apologizing for this lie which has further lowered his fast-sinking reputation and sullied his integrity and that of the high office he occupies.”
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