{"id":228732,"date":"2026-03-27T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-why-was-the-cost-of-the-flowerpot-interchange-road-project-reviewed-under-npp-solomon-owusu-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:17:54","slug":"ghana-why-was-the-cost-of-the-flowerpot-interchange-road-project-reviewed-under-npp-solomon-owusu-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-why-was-the-cost-of-the-flowerpot-interchange-road-project-reviewed-under-npp-solomon-owusu-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Why Was the Cost of the Flowerpot Interchange Road Project Reviewed Under NPP &#8211; Solomon Owusu Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Director of Communications of the United Party, Solomon Owusu, has alleged that the cost of the Flowerpot Interchange road project was significantly increased under the New Patriotic Party government without justification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Speaking during adiscussion on TV3 today, March 26, 2026, he claimed that the project, initially awarded in 2016 at a cost of 69.5 million Ghana cedis, was later reviewed to about 147 million Ghana cedis in 2017 after the NPP assumed office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">He argued that the upward review&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270036.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of Communications of the United Party, Solomon Owusu, has alleged that the cost of the Flowerpot Interchange road project was significantly increased under the New Patriotic Party government without justification. Speaking during adiscussion on TV3 today, March 26, 2026, he claimed that the project, initially awarded in 2016 at a cost of 69.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6629,43063,4508,4509,19621,257,15763,9146,6504,5152,19156,7414,11320,254],"class_list":["post-228732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cost","tag-flowerpot","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-interchange","tag-news","tag-npp","tag-owusu","tag-project","tag-questions","tag-reviewed","tag-road","tag-solomon","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}