Mrs. Ekua Tandoh-Bawa, Chief Personnel Officer, Public Works Department (PWD) in Sekondi in the Western Region, has called on government to revamp and empower the department to carry out its mandated role effectively.
She noted with sadness how the department had over the years been neglected and relegated to the background in terms of awards of contracts and repair and maintenance of state bungalows and estates among others.
"Even the district assemblies that have to make good use of our services now employ their own artisans and engineers among others to carry out repair and maintenance", she said in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Takoradi.
Ms. Tandoh-Bawa noted: "although we have the machines and the human resources yet we are neglected". Alluding to the many unemployed graduates particularly civil engineers, she said government could employ most of them to build up the human resource base of the department.
"Many of our competent staff who have gone on retirement without any replacement", she said.
Ms Tandoh-Bawa therefore called on government and other stakeholders to quickly turn attention to that public institution and save it from collapse by providing it with the needed assistance and recognition.
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