By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
The Vice President and the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2024 Presidential candidate, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, has revealed plans by the government to equip Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) across the country with earth-moving equipment to carry out road maintenance and construction works.
The supply of the equipment will be under the District Road Improvement Programme (D.R.I.P), a new initiative aimed at empowering local assemblies to undertake infrastructure development, including road construction.
The DRIP, funded by the District Assembly Common Fund and donor partners, will help address the many infrastructure challenges with the MMDAs.
Addressing NPP supporters and sympathisers at a rally in Wulensi in the Northern Region, Dr Bawumia said DRIP will be a game changer.
“We now have a new policy that we’re going to implement, which is basically the District Road Improvement Programme, every district is going to be given a set of road equipment to work on your road, every district.
I’m happy to note that all the equipment that we have ordered has arrived, and every district will get a set which includes an excavator, back holder, wheel loaders, compact rollers, and tipper trucks,” Dr Bawumia hinted.
