Early this morning, the contractor for the 3-tier PTC Interchange in Takoradi was spotted with a hydraulic crane ready to pull down the gigantic billboard.at the heart of the roundabout.
This comes after a cascading attack from the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on government over claims that the project is ‘progressing steadily’. The NDC on called out the Presdient, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for misrepresenting the facts about the status of the project during the commissiong of the Obetsebi-Lambtey Interchange in Accra.
On 25 November 2020, the Western Region branch of the NDC rounded up counter claims to the President’s assertion, and labelled the entire project and three others [incuding the 100-bed Shama District Hospital which the President initiated on August 19 2020] which were expected to begin in earnest, as ‘sakawa’.
With this new development, the perception of reaidents is likely to be altered, and perhaps compell them to believe work will continue shortly after the billboard is removed.
Below are some pictures