He explained further that, there was already a master drainage plan in place which was to be implemented as part of the widely publicized Conti Project\u00a0with the $530 million being sought from Parliament at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a master plan for drainage in Accra and that master plan is what we wanted to use to engage the Conti people from the US to come and assist us address the problem and so the minister is using the same scope of work and it is going to cost $700 million? I don\u2019t not know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the same technical people, after leaving office two months, will give different advice and the difference will be close to $200 million dollars, I will be surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Ahi has thus said he will be requesting a breakdown of the $700 million projection from Mr. Atta Akyea on the floor of Parliament.<\/p>\n \u201cI will have the opportunity to speak to the State of the Nation Address. I will use the platform to call in the minster to come clean and explain to us the components of that $700 million,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing in the John Mahama administration, Sampson Ahi, has disputed the government\u2019s estimation that it will cost about $700 million to solve the perennial flooding in the national capital, Accra. On the back of flooding in the capital following a downpour over the weekend, the Minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[4550,4551,491,3],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Samuel](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ministerial-vetting-23.jpg\")