‘Non-existent’ Projects due to data input errors – Bawumia’s Spokesperson
Jonas Danquah 
The Vice President’s Spokesperson, Dr. Gideon Boako, says the government’s infrastructure projects listed by the NDC as non-existent may be due to ‘data input errors’
He dismissed assertions by the opposition that, the Akufo-Addo government was deliberately trying to bloat its achievement records.
The Akufo-Addo administration said it had initiated 17,334 infrastructural projects in various parts of the country with 8,746 of them having been completed. It launched a website to enable Ghanaians to track these infrastructural projects.
But the NDC’s National Communication Officer, Sammy Gyamfi on Monday, August 24, 2020, accused government of deceiving Ghanaians as the website for tracking its project had captured a number of ghost projects.
He proceeded to list some 26 ‘non-existent’ projects cited by the NPP’s website.
Responding to the NDC’s claims, Dr. Boako posited that “when the data was uploaded on the tracker, there may have been some matters of error.”
He noted as an example that there was a bridge project in Tano North that was inputted wrongly.
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Dr. Boako also addressed the absence of an Astroturf project in the Adentan Constituency which the NDC cited.
“I don’t know of an Astroturf built-in Adenta but I know of an Astroturf that is being constructed at Madina so it is possible that whoever was inputting the data wanted to refer to the Astroturf at Madina.”
“As and when our attention is drawn to the displacement of a particular project for a different community, we just have to rectify it,” he added.
He however said, the margin of error in the government’s achievement claims ‘may not be substantial’
Meanwhile Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the accusation by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the NPP had listed 26 non-existent projects were untrue.
He however admitted that inclusion of the Adenta astroturf as a completed project was an error.
According to the Information Minister, the team in charge of verifying the projects might have overlooked it during their checks, causing the ‘ghost’ project to be listed on the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) delivery tracker website.
