The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Obuasi East, Faustina Amissah, has disclosed that her outfit cannot trace any documents to former President John Mahama’s E Block project at the assembly.
This comes in the wake of a documentary shown by the Oyerepa Breakfast Show after discovering an abandoned E-block project that was initiated by the then NDC government in 2012.
The Mahama government, in its bid to enhance access to secondary education, embarked on building 200 schools, awarding a total of 124 Community Day Senior High School (E-Block) projects.
According to the NDC, their government completed about 50 of them by December 2016, out of which 46 were personally commissioned by President Mahama, while the ruling party, after taking over power in 2016, said only 29 were fully completed.
Speaking in an interview with Nana Yaw Mensah Joel on the Oyerepa Breakfast Show Monday morning, the DCE explained that there are no documents on the Obuasi Kwabenakwa E block project that was started by the NDC government, but the only document to show is a letter written to the assembly when the project was about to commence.
“Since we came to the office, we have not had any documents whatsoever for that particular project, and we do not know the contractor to whom this project was given, but we are still doing our best to see if we can trace any; for now, we have no such documents,” she stated.
However, she added that since they are unable to trace any documents, her government is finding it difficult to continue the project, which has led to its abandonment so far.
“Now, because we cannot get any documents or the contractor who was working on the project, we can’t just wake up and start working on it unless we get to see how the contract was awarded, the amount involved, and how far he has gotten on this project per the contract terms,“ she said.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Amissah noted that her government is doing everything possible to repackage the project and award it to a contractor to complete it.
“But the government is embarking on a repacking of the project, and a contract will be awarded to complete this project by the end of this year, 2024,” she added.
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com/Freduah Agyemang Derrick
