The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Attah, has warned contractors against shoddy road projects although they are to speed work within agreed schedules.<\/p>\n
He said Ghana has set a high-quality road construction standard that must not be compromised.<\/p>\n
He gave the advice when he toured some road construction project sites in the Greater Accra Region, including the Tema Roundabout improvement project on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is significant, and I want to lay emphasis on the fact that, these projects must be\u00a0carried out, executed and completed in a record time…this is the standard that I want all contractors working in our country to adopt and follow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Minister lamented that, the country lost huge sums of monies due to contracts whose completions were delayed.<\/p>\n
He noted that, such contracts also had their quality compromised.<\/p>\n
\u201cDelay in project works, project implementation and project construction, bring in their trail a lot\u00a0of negative effects, a lot of difficulties, and eventually it becomes costly to the government and in most cases if not managed, even quality is compromised,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Amoako Attah told\u00a0Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0that, an initial payment of GH\u00a2600 million had been made by the ministry to various contractors to construct roads in various parts of the country.<\/p>\n He said the first payment was made in March and the second payment commenced last Friday.<\/p>\n \u201c[From] the little that we have in the Road Fund, contractors are being paid. We started as far back as March. Contractors were paid something in the region of GH\u00a2300 million. Last Friday, the Road Fund board approved about GH\u00a2300 million and disbursement is going on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Ann-Shirley Ziwu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Attah, has warned contractors against shoddy road projects although they are to speed work within agreed schedules. He said Ghana has set a high-quality road construction standard that must not be compromised. He gave the advice when he toured some road construction project sites in the Greater […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[11430,3,8998],"yoast_head":"\n