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27th July 2023 11:26:49 AM
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Founder and General Overseer of Life Assembly Worship Centre, Reverend Christian Kwabena Andrews, popularly known as Osofo Kyiri Abosom, has announced his intention to take drastic measures against former Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Cecilia Dapaah, over monies spent on distilling the Odaw River in the Greater Accra Region.
In an interview on Kingdom FM, Osofo Kyiri Abosom indicated that he would put the former Sanitation Minister behind bars should he be elected president.
According to him, it is unacceptable for the former Minister to spend huge sums of money on what he describes at little work done.
"If God doesn't not take her away and I become President, I will prosecute her. How can you tell me you used 43 million dollars for such a thing," he said.
On 23rd February 2021, Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah answered questions on the funds Ghana received from the World Bank to support the Greater Accra and Integrated Development initiative.
In Parliament, an MP asked the Minister to account for the $570 million provided by the World Bank.
In her response, Mrs Cecilia Dapaah revealed that the Ministry of Sanitation received an amount of $43million from the total figure.
She did not provide a very detailed breakdown of how the money was spent, but however, noted that the money was use to "to cap about five feet around Pantang and then the Odaw Basin."
She also added that money was spent to "clean up the Odaw Basin to make the channels open for water to flow in."
For Osofo Kyiri Abosom, the money spent on the project is not worth the work done.
"We gave her 43 million dollars to beautify Accra, then she told us that she used all the funds to distill the Odaw River. Go look at it. It is an eye sore," he bemoaned.
The Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development project (GARID) is the first in a series of projects designed to build the resilience of the national capital with the intial phase covering a five-year period (2020-2025).
The goal of the project is to improve flood risk and solid waste management in the Odaw River basin of the Greater Accra region and improve access to basic infrastructure and services in the targeted communities within the Odaw River Basin.
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