{"id":15587,"date":"2014-04-30T05:19:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T05:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=15587"},"modified":"2014-04-30T09:14:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T09:14:27","slug":"hands-off-govt-contracts-apau-tells-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=15587","title":{"rendered":"Hands off Gov\u2019t contracts &#8211; Apau tells politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Commission investigating past judgment debt payments in Ghana, Justice Yaw Apau, has said politicians must desist from interfering in the award and execution of government projects in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Tuesday\u2019s sitting of the Commission, the Appeals Court Judge said needless political interferences have over the years impacted negatively on the quality of work done by some contractors.<\/p>\n<p>To back his comments, Justice Yaw Apau said many public roads constructed recently are now in deplorable states because politicians, instead of technocrats, had been exceedingly involved in the award and execution of the contracts covering such projects.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWhy do we have to wait for events before we start filing all pot holes on our roads? That\u2019s why I say politicians should leave technocrats to do their work; there shouldn\u2019t be any interference so that our roads can be properly constructed to reduce the deterioration. But if you want politicians to get overly involved then this is what you get; bad roads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice Apau was speaking when officials of the Department of Urban roads appeared before the commission and presented documents covering previous government contracts with Construction Pioneers, a construction firm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pearl Akanya Ofori \/Citifmonline.com\/ Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Commission investigating past judgment debt payments in Ghana, Justice Yaw Apau, has said politicians must desist from interfering in the award and execution of government projects in the country. Speaking at Tuesday\u2019s sitting of the Commission, the Appeals Court Judge said needless political interferences have over the years impacted negatively on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,17],"class_list":["post-15587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}