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| Minister Apologises For Lying… |
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Monday, 08 January 2007
… Says, "It was a mix-up"
The Ashanti Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC) has apologized for what it called “ a mix-up” in the list of roads in the Region said to have benefited from a bitumen surface project by the Department of Feeder Roads.
A statement issued for the Regional Minister by Mr. Joseph M. Dasanah, the Deputy Regional Co-ordinating Director within 12 hours from a Chronicle publication last Friday on the subject indicated the RCC’s regret for the inconvenience and embarrassment the “mix up” might have caused.
Reacting to The Chronicle publication of Friday January 5, 2007, headed “Ashanti Minister in lies Wahala”, the statement said, “We concede that there was a mix up in the list of roads, which appeared in the Minister’s speech”.
It said the roads mentioned by the Regional Minister “are rather the roads which had just been awarded on contract for bituminous surfacing.” According to the statement, the said roads were inadvertently captured under the list of completed bituminous surfaced roads.
What the statement issued as an after thought, failed to indicate was the actual list of completed bituminous surfaced roads which got mixed up with those that “ had just been awarded on contract for bituminous surfacing.
The RCC announced, however, that al the roads referred to in the Minister’s speech had actually been awarded on contract since November 29, 2006 for surfacing. The statement, however, pointed out that the good news for the affected communities was that work on the selected roads was to commence within the shortest possible time. The Chronicle
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