The Ministry of Works and Housing and Sanitation has reportedly paid some GHS100,000,000 to Dredge Masters to desilt the Odaw drain.
Investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni blew the alarm and expressed shock at why the state will pay such huge amount for a job Ibrahim Mahama did free of charge.
To him, it doesn’t make sense that a job as simple and temporary as fetching sand from a drain should cost the nation so much.
He wrote: “In 2015, President Mahama’s brother Ibrahim Mahama used the government’s equipment to dredge the Odaw for free. Hell broke loose with all manner of accusations from the opposition NPP.
In this hardship when even National Service Personnel cannot be paid, the NPP is paying a Zoomlion sister company ONE HUNDRED MILLION GHANA CEDIS for work on the Odaw.The perennial fetching of sand and other waste materials from the Odaw isn’t a permanent solution. So why does the government not employ operators to use its equipment to dredge as Ibrahim Mahama did?
The cost of maintaining the equipment and paying the operators won’t be GHc100,000,000.Where are the machines and equipment Ibrahim Mahama used to dredge for free? And what processes did the government use to pick Zoomlion’s sister company for this job? Or does asking these questions amount to hating Zoomlion or Akufo-Addo’s NPP?”
Source: GhanaFeed.com
