NEWS ARCHIVE 2006 - 09


ATIWA: Projects yet to be completed

Most of the contracts awarded in 2006 and 2007 for the construction of social amenities such as classroom blocks, places of convinience and boreholes in the Atiwa District have not been completed.


Date Created : 8/5/2009 11:34:49 AM : Story Author : GhanaDistrict.Com

Most of the contracts awarded in 2006 and 2007 for the construction of social amenities such as classroom blocks, places of convinience and boreholes in the Atiwa District have not been completed.

The projects were being funded by the GETFund, District Assemblies Common Fund, HIPC initiatives and the Social Investment Fund.

Construction works on most of the projects which were expected to be completed within seven months and handed over to the communities was nwtween 20 percent and 66 percent complete.

The District Chief Executieve, Mr. Emmanuel Atta Twum, made this known in his maiden address to the assembly.

He said apart from two projects, an office for the insurance scheme at Anyinam, the commercial centre of the district and a 14 seater water closet at Dongobe, which had been completed, the rest, 26 in all, are at various stagesof completion.

The DCE told the assembly that the failure of the contractors to complete the projects had raised questions on contract management in the assembly and that management was investigating the causes of the delay to ensure that the jobs would be completed as soon as
possible.

Aside that, he said the Regional Programme Steering Committee had approved a number of projects for the district to be implemented under the Local Service Delivery and Governance Programme.

 

PF