Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has bemoaned the slow pace of work of the Agenda 111 project in Zenga, a community in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region.
Dr Bawumia expressed his concerns during a visit to the site of project and called on the contractor to speed up work because the project is behind schedule.
“I am very concerned that this project is not moving at the pace it should be moving, and we have to say that, as it is. I wish I could say that I was happy with the progress,” Bawumia said.
“The progress is not satisfactory, and I have said that to the Consultant who has briefed me, and he said the same, that it is not satisfactory. We need to be making more progress than this, so we are going to encourage the Contractor to really get on, and get this thing back on schedule because we are behind schedule,” he added.
The Agenda 111 is a project by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to address the lack of adequate health facilities in certain areas of the country.
“We are doing this to address a problem we have had since independence. So we are taking the opportunity to close this gap.” the Vice President said.
A sod was cut for the project on February 17, 2022, and since then, the pace of work had been very slow despite calls by Mr Stephen Yakubu, the Regional Minister and some stakeholders in the Region about the pace of work.
In contrast to the Upper East Region, the Vice President had expressed satisfaction with the Agenda 111 project in the Northern Region during his recent tour of the region.
Speaking after his inspecting sites of the project, the Vice President expressed pleasant surprise over the pace of work; “I am very happy with the pace of work so far; I never knew the contractors had gone this far.”
“One of the things that we have to appreciate fundamentally is that Agenda 111 is really a bold initiative by the government because we are saying that every district should have a hospital; that is the vision,” he continued.
According to him, about 87 hospitals were at various stages of construction across the country, with the five regions of the north having about 27 of those projects.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com
