Joyce Bawah Mogtari, the Campaign Spokesperson and Special Aide to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, has criticized the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for failing to deliver on its promises to improve roads in Ghana’s main cocoa-producing region.

In a post on X on Wednesday, November 13, she described the roads leading to the Western Region as severely neglected, emphasizing the negative impact this has had on farmers and the cocoa trade. She noted that the poor infrastructure not only disrupts the transport of cocoa—a major export for Ghana—but also jeopardizes the livelihoods of those who depend on the industry.

Madam Bawah assured that the NDC, under John Mahama’s leadership, is committed to addressing this issue if elected, stating that prioritizing road rehabilitation would help boost the local economy and support cocoa farmers in the Western Region.

"The Cocoa Board, Cocoa Research Institute, the Produce Buying Company, and other ancillary organizations associated with cocoa growing and production are all located in the Capital City of Ghana. Even the roads leading to the region are in a terribly deplorable condition."

She added, "So when John Mahama proposed to reconstruct and rehabilitate road infrastructure for our cocoa-growing areas, it was a very important intervention meant to improve access, infrastructure quality, and the environment around cocoa farming communities."

"But alas our opponents won the 2016 elections, thanks to lies and propaganda, and in the last eight years, the NPP has totally failed to deliver on the cocoa roads. After all the failed promises—1D1F, one million dollars per constituency, etc.—Ghana’s cocoa-growing communities have been short-changed and have grown poorer under Akufo-Addo and Bawumia," she stated.

Her remarks come amid growing calls for infrastructure improvements in key agricultural areas.