Coastal Development Authority

The Coastal Development Authority (CODA) has said it bought each of the 100 minicars meant to replace commercial motorbike operations (okada) at GHS25,000, thus, totalling GHS2.5 million and not GHS85 million as "falsely" reported by some digital media platforms. CODA also denied claims the cars had been left to rot. The Akufo-Addo government launched the CODA Drive Initiative in fulfilment of a 2020 campaign promise to replace okada bikes with the low-cost Bajaj Qute minicars on a hire-purchase basis. CODA, in a statement, described the media claims as "palpably false, malicious, baseless, totally untrue and damaging just to cause disaffection…