Two years after the Vea dam walk-way at Vea in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region was awarded to Messrs Shenash Limited, no work has been done.
It would be recalled that in 2020, the contract, expected to cover 9.30kilometre road between Zaare and Vea was awarded at a cost of GHȻ11,558,104.00.
According to the Upper East Regional Feeder Roads Engineer, Mr Bruku Boateng who initially gave assurance that the said Contractor was ready by March 2021, said on the ‘Word Watch Show’ on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 that the Contractor had not been to site for the past two years.
He said the attitude of the Contractor was as a result of Government’s inability to pay him in some similar contracts executed, adding that the delay in payment had affected the work of the Contractor.
Mr Boateng said the contract was likely to be terminated if the Contractor continued to delay, noting that he was only given some time due to his financial situation, but if things persisted, there would no other option then to call for termination of the contract.
In an interview with the Regional Focal Person for the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, Rev John Akaribo, he expressed concern about the challenges residents of Vea, Gowrie and its adjoining communities faced in accessing other communities since the inception of the Vea dam in 1965.
He said workers could not cross the dam, especially in the raining season without the use of canoes which cost them between GHȻ5.00 and GHȻ7.00 and sometime without life jackets to protect them.
Rev Akaribo used the opportunity to appeal to Government to pay the Contractor to enable him mobilise to site.
source:mywordfmonline.com /Gaspard Ayuureneeya