Bongo District Assembly reject project

.... that is not

disability friendly

Mr Alexis Adugdaa Ayamdor, District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Bongo

District in the Upper East Region has rejected a three-unit classroom

block at Nayorigo because the contractor failed to add designs that were

disability friendly.

According

to the DCE the assembly would only accept projects that take into consideration

designs that were disability friendly and advised the construction firm Robert

Aboor’s Enterprise, which is Bongo based to design rambles within the project

to include the classrooms urinal and the toilet facilities to make them

accessible to PWDs.

He later issued a strong warning to contractors that the assembly would

not accept any project that failed to consider disability friendly designs.

Mr Ayamdor however accepted two other projects at separate functions at

Gorogo –Soe, Zorko-Atenseka and Nayorigo all in the District.

They were a 6.3 kilometres spot improvement of Gorogo–Soe feeder roads

executed by Lampoher Engineering Company Limited valued at 297,716.13 Ghana

cedis with funding from the Ghana Social Opportunity Project (GSOP) and the

construction of a three-unit class room block with its ancillary facilities at

Zorko-Atenseka by Al-Aras Enterprise, a Bolgatanga based firm valued at 96,902.23

Ghana cedis with funding from the District Development Facility (DDF).

Another three-unit class room block with its

ancillaries at Nayorigo constructed by Robert Aboor’s Enterprise of Bongo at

the cost of 96,682.32 Ghana cedis also funded from the DDF was the project

rejected for not being PWD friendly.

Mr Ayamdor further

warned that the Assembly would not tolerate any contractor who would execute

shoddy work, adding “Value for money is one of the cardinal principles of this

government and the Assembly will not hesitate to blacklist any contractor whose

work did not meet specifications, standards and schedule”

The DCE expressed

satisfaction at works executed by the other contractors and commended them for

their good work.

He

tasked the Works and Physical Department of the Assembly to ensure that the

three-unit class room block with its ancillary facilities at

Zorko-Atenseka constructed by Al-Aras Enterprise was adopted as a model and

replicated in other communities. He therefore entreated other contractors to

visit the site to learn from the contractor.

He

impressed upon the Ghana Education Service, (GES) the Assembly members and the

community members to endeavour to monitor ongoing projects in their communities

and to offer feedback to the Assembly for redress if the need be.

Mr Ayamdor assured the works and physical

department of the Assembly that his administration would give it the needed

support to embark on regular monitoring to be led by him to ensure that projects

were executed properly.

The

Chiefs, communities, Assembly members and the GES expressed their appreciation

to the leadership of the District Assembly and appealed to the Assembly to

assist furnish the classrooms with furniture.

The DCE was accompanied by the GSOP

Regional Technical team, the District Assembly Works and Physical Department,

the Planner of the District Assembly, the District Director of the Department

of Social Welfare, User Agencies including the GES among others.