Nationwide Roads Being Made Unprecedented Since Nkrumah, Kwetey Declares

Fiifi Fiavi Kwetey, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, has told delegates at the Regional Conference at Ho Technical University in Ho that the party is witnessing a moment of national transformation, anchoring his message in discipline, clean politics, and visible development across Ghana.

Kwetey placed roads at the centre of his argument, insisting that the scale and simultaneity of construction now underway mark a break from the past. He said roads are being done everywhere at the same time, in community after community, rather than in scattered, symbolic gestures, and he presented that nationwide momentum as evidence of a government and a party working with unusual focus and purpose.

His central claim was financial as well as physical. Kwetey argued that the roads are being delivered without borrowing a dime, a feat he described as a blessing following the party and the nation. In his telling, the ability to build without piling new debt onto the state separates the present moment from earlier eras of borrowing-led development and exposes the limits of old excuses for stalled progress.

He framed the record as historic, declaring that the way roads are being done from independence to now is unprecedented. From the era of Kwame Nkrumah to the present, he said, Ghana has never seen construction on this scale, at this pace, and on this funding discipline, a comparison meant to lift the debate beyond party slogans and into the lived experience of travellers, traders, farmers, and families.

According to Fiifi Fiavi Kwetey, “There has never been a time in the history of Ghana that roads are being done everywhere at the same time, and these roads are being done without borrowing a dime.” He described that combination as a blessing following the party, and he warned delegates that such a moment demands character, warning that influence peddling and vote buying would corrode the moral authority the party needs to defend its record and win trust.

The stakes now extend beyond Ho. If delegates embrace discipline and reject money-driven politics, Kwetey argued, the party can protect its development story and present itself as a credible custodian of public resources. If they ignore the warning, he implied, even unprecedented roads could be undermined by internal decay, leaving the party to win arguments about infrastructure while losing the deeper contest for integrity.

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Author: Korkor Anumu