The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, believes the Akufo-Addo government has made the biggest investment in the Northern Region since independence with the construction of the Pwalugu multipurpose dam project.
According to him, the NPP government is one that has ordinary Ghanaian at heart and it will continue to undertake such ground breaking projects to make Ghanaians better off.
“The most important irrigation project that we have put in place is the Pwalugu dam. This is the one that is almost a billion dollars and it is going to provide irrigation to at least 24,000 hectares [of farm land]. Currently, Ghana has a public irrigable land of 13,000 hectares. So Pwalugu is going to double what we have in addition to the flood control and electricity. It is the biggest investment that any government has done in Northern Region since independence.”
Dr. Bawumia made this known on Tuesday, August 25, 2020, during an interview on Accra-based Peace FM.
Dr. Bawumia among other things also dismissed criticisms of the project and the government’s one village one dam initiative by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)
“The one village one dam initiative has been very helpful to Northerners. It has been very useful to them. It has ended communal fights over water because the fight of water is very high in the North during the dry season. So these dams are providing water to them. One village one dam has helped farmers very much and other people who need water for other uses in the North during the dry season. If you sit in Accra, you may not be able to appreciate the impact of these dams.”
Source: GhanaFeed.Com
