President Akufo-Addo inspecting one of the road projects in the Ashanti Region
WITH
EFFECT from Monday, October 14, 2019, any contractor that has been engaged by a
district assembly but is not living up to expectation will have their contracts
terminated.
President
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has boldly declared that his administration will
not sit aloof for contractors to unduly delay government projects whilst the
citizenry suffers.
“From
Monday, I will order the Minister of Local Government to terminate the contracts
of contractors working with the various district assemblies, but not delivering,”
he said.
Addressing
a durbar of chiefs and people of Drobonso in the Sekyere Afram Plains District
of the Ashanti Region, the President insisted that he was in a hurry to improve the infrastructural base of the country.
He
said he would not accept situations where contractors engaged by the various
district assemblies fail to live up to expectation.
“Those
who have been awarded contracts but are not delivering would have their
contracts terminated and new contractors would quickly be appointed to finish
the job on time,” he declared.
On
security issues, he said his government had worked tirelessly to increase the
movable vehicles in the Ghana Police Service from just 250 to 600, and his
target is to increase it further to 1,000.
The
President disclosed that “when we came into government, we had only 30,000
policemen and 250 vehicles, which were woefully inadequate, and we have
increased the number of cars to 600”.
He
also said he recently participated in Ashanti Regional Security Council
(REGSEC) meeting, where insecurity and robberies at Drobonso and the
surrounding areas was discussed.
He
expressed worry over the situation and said he would instruct the IGP to
appoint a police commander for Drobonso to help improve security in the area so
that the robberies would stop.
Nana
Dwamena Dankwa Dwebisaw, the Drobonsohene, lauded the Akufo-Addo administration
for carrying out developmental projects in the area.
He,
however, appealed to the President to intervene so that the rampant robberies
and general insecurity in the area would be curbed, saying that robbers were
gradually taking over the area.
The President, who was in his final day of his three-day tour of the Ashanti Region, was accompanied by the Education Minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh and some government officials.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi
