Vincent Oppong Asamoah, a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Works and Housing, has said Parliament would investigate the contract awarded for the Ningo-Prampram and Dansoman Sea Defense project.

Mr Oppong Asamoah believes it is odd that the government entrusted the project to a new contractor with no prior experience in the construction of maritime defence projects.

Contracts should be allocated based on competitive bidding rather than sole sourcing, unless a contractor has skills that others lack, he argued.

“In this case, a new contractor (and this is) the first project he is going to execute and they sole source that person. It is so suspicious and we are going to look into it and find out why a project of such magnitude - almost GH₵400 million will be sole-sourced to a new contractor in the industry.

There are a lot of questions we need to get answers to when we get to Parliament,” he noted.



Mr Oppong Asamoah said this during a visit to the Ningo-Prampram and Dansoman Sea Defense project by members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Works and Housing and officials from the Works and Housing Ministry, on Monday, May 9th.

Meanwhile, Mr Osei Sarpong, Project Manager for Bridge Global, the construction company in charge of the project, has revealed that about 40 per cent of the work on the 5 kilometer project has been completed.

“We are expecting the consultant to give us some change in scope so we can do more work. We are hoping it comes soon because currently, we have idle equipment,” he disclosed in an interview with Citi Newsroom.

Also, Mr Hubert Owusu-Ansah, who is the Director of Hydrology Division at the Ministry of Works and Housing, disclosed that the first phase of the 2km Dansoman Defence Project is about 95 per cent complete.

He added that, however, works on the drainage system are yet to be completed.

"The drainage works are meant to carry flood waters from the communities into the sea. So, we are left with a few lengths of drainage works to execute. We have noted that towards the East, there is the need for more work to be done and this has been brought to the attention of our ministry,” he stated.

Source: backend.theindependentghana.comÂ