Northern Regional Minister Salifu Saeed has terminated the Bimbilla-Salaga road contract which was given to Engineers and Planners, a company owned by Ibrahim Mahama, brother of former President John Mahama.
The contract, which was awarded to the company over a year, was yet to be started, although mobilization fee had been paid by the government.
The minister was worried that the company had not been able to move to the site to start the project saying, “Given the capacity of the company and the fact that they have all the logistics needed to carry out this project, I still can’t understand why the project has not been executed. We can’t wait; we need this project delivered.”
The Northern Regional minister appealed to residents and users of the road to exercise restraint as his outfit would ensure its completion to facilitate easy movement of traffic.
Last week, a heavy downpour rendered parts of the Northern Regional capital, Tamale, flooded. The rains, which started in the early hours of Tuesday, July 25, saw the region heavily flooded. Properties worth over thousands of cedis, livestock and some human lives were also lost.
Major roads linking rural communities in the region to the capital were also rendered un-motorable by the rains. Among such roads was the Bimbila-Salaga road in the Eastern corridor of the region.
Mr Salifu Saeed urged contractors working on all the Eastern corridor roads to halt activities on any other road and rather come and fix the Bimbila-Salaga road.
The regent of Bimbilla, Naa Andani Dasana, has called for the road project to be looked at again, indicating that it’s affecting economic activities in the district.
He asserted that with the prospect that Bimbilla has and considering the fact that it’s part of the food basket for the nation, and also taking into consideration that Bimbilla will become the central hub when the Eastern corridor roads are completed, there was the need to revisit the plan for the road construction and make adjustments.
“Naanum is going to obviously be the centre of development when the Eastern corridor roads are completed, and with a growing population as that of Naanum, the roads are going to be small for us.”
According to the regent, the initial plan of having a single lane road will not be adequate for such an area with such prospects of growth and development.
“It will therefore be appropriate to have a multi or dual carriage which will serve the present and future generations,” he charged.
Source: Daily Guide
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ghanaians hate to see the truth, JM gave huge contract to his brother whiles there are other people in the country who could do same contract at even a cheaper amount. well done mr minister
Is Ibrahim Mahama a F'raudster?
@Bomber: Don't even worry yourself on that so called Truth. That is the attitude of most Ghanaians. Their inability to analyze things deeply and observe things very well but take whatever lie put out by their parties make politicians take us for granted. Mahama did not appoint any member of his family to a high political office yet he has gone down in history as one president who allowed his family members to drain the resources of this country behind the scenes. A typical example is Ibrahim Mahama. How could one individual be handed over the whole mineral concession at Nyinahini in the Ashanti Region worth over $250 billion. What kind of greed is this? Does he want to be richer than the whole nation.
@Truth or whatever you call yourself. Your name is contradictory to what you believe in. I think you love 1ie5 but hate the truth. How many times do you want the chief Justice to issue a disclaimer that she is not a relative of Nana Addo neither is the Attorney General. I know you have seen the disclaimer somewhere but as typical of the NDC you have deliberately decided to continue to peddle 1ie5. Shame on you. Nana Addo is not an angel and will definitely have some flaws so look for those ones and say it with all honesty and truth. These 1ie5 will not help you. Once again, shame on you.
Kuffour elected his brother as minister, mills did same. Akuffo Addo elected Goria who doubles as relative to the bench, so you tell me one honest politican in Ghana?
That's a great way to share among the less fortunate contractors.
Judgment debt looming, will npp stop the witch-hunting to save the country of free give aways
GHANAIAN MEDIA AND SENSATIONALISM, SO WHY THAT HEADING. GOD HAVE MERCY.
Well done, Mr.Minister.