Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Ensure due diligence in execution of projects (page 15)

THE Greater Accra Regional Co-ordinator of National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr Winfred Nomotey Tesia, has called on district chief executives to take particular interest in infrastructural projects that are carried out in their respective districts to get value for money.
He argued that scarce resources could be saved for other national developments if those in charge of national projects ensured due diligence in the execution of projects.
The regional co-ordinator gave the advice when his outfit presented 200 pieces of roofing sheets to be used for re-roofing of a three-classroom block at Otinibi in the Ga East Municipality in the Greater Accra Region.
Mr Tesia said more often than not, resources which could have been used for additional projects for the benefit of the people had to be used to rehabilitate existing ones.
“Many government projects get destroyed soon after completion, because they are not properly done,” he pointed out.
The roofing of the building, which was said to have been commissioned not long ago, ripped off during a rainstorm that hit Otinibi and its environs on May 31, 2009.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Accra, the regional co-ordinator said it was unfortunate that contractors who were employed to work on government projects did shoddy work, but no one seem to care.
He advised that it would serve the nation a lot if people who were assigned responsibility to oversee the construction of government projects did what was expected of them.
Receiving the roofing sheets on behalf of the school, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ga East Municipal Assembly, Mr Kwao Sackey, gave the assurance that the building would be re-roofed as soon as possible to enable schoolchildren who were studying under trees to come back to their classrooms.
He promised to monitor the work of contractors in the municipality and expressed gratitude to the regional NADMO office for responding swiftly to their call.

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