The minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Attah interacting with the Buipe bridge project manager
The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Attah has indicated that contractors of the Eastern Corridor road are financially constrained.
He disclosed that most of them laid down their tools around December since they did not have money to pay their workers and creditors.
According to him, government would soon sort out the problem to enable the contractors go back to work and complete the job.
Considering the evasive posture of the then NDC government, the contractors feared their debts would not be paid, hence, their decision to stop work and desert the site.
Apart from dealing with the contractors’ issue, the minister pledged also to take steps to strengthen the bridge maintenance unit of the Roads and Highways Ministry which was currently under-resourced so that it can carry out maintenance works across the country instead of bringing in foreign consultants.
“It is my duty as the sector minister to carry it to government because they play a very important role but that unit is seriously under resourced.”
The minister stated that engineers at the unit can be compared to any other engineers in the world and all they need is the needed resources to do their work.
Mr Amoako Atta made this known at Buipe in the Central Gonja District of the Northern Region when he inspected the ongoing maintenance works on the Buipe Bridge.
FROM Eric Kombat, Buipe