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John Abdulai Jinapor, the ranking member of the Parliament’s Energy Committee, claims that the Minority will employ all available legal channels to recover the $12 million that was invested on the Pwalugu multipurpose dam.
Speaking to the reporters at the Pwalugu dam site, the ranking member revealed that, since the project had been shelved, his side will pursue all available legal options to recover the money.
He added that actors who have led the state to suffer such a financial loss will face legal action from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the future.
“We will activate all the Parliament processes to retrieve that amount of almost 200,000 million Ghana cedis that have been dashed to this contractor.
“Somebody must be held liable, someone must be held accountable. 200,000 million Ghana cedis is not a small money. $12 million dollars can do a lot in this country,” Mr. Jinapor explained.
“So we will use every legitimate means, every legal means to retrieve the money and punish those who have caused this financial crime and financial loss to the state” he added.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stated that building the Pwalugu Multi-purpose Dam in the Upper East Region is a priority project that has to happen.
He acknowledges that the project, which was supposed to be carried out by China Power, the owners of Sinohydro, was not able to be built by the government, even though sod was cut in 2019 with funding of about one billion cedis.
The project is not yet complete, even though the steps required for its creation have advanced.
Speaking to the clergy on his current campaign visit of the Upper East Region, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia pledged that his administration would finish the project to stop the recurring floods caused by the Bagre Dam spill in Burkina Faso.
“My priority is going to be agriculture, agriculture in large scale commercial agriculture, mechanised agriculture with the application of technology. This is what has been lacking.
“We have the land, we have the water and so we need to move into large scale commercial production, mechanised, with technology that we are going to use to help our farmers access credit and with irrigation.
“I do not doubt in my mind that I was championing the Pwalugu dam. We have not yet been able to do it. But by the grace of God, I believe we are going to do the Pwalugu dam.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
