Kpone, Sept. 14, GNA - Mr Abubakar Saddique Boniface, Minister of Water Resource, Works and Housing, on Friday expressed dissatisfaction at the pace of work at the government affordable housing project at Kpone, near Tema.
Mr Boniface expressed his dissatisfaction when he visited the site and discovered that some of the contractors had abandoned the work for unexplained reasons.
He announced that he would meet with all the contractors working on the project to find out what the problem was and attempt to address them to enable the Government to inaugurate the project on time. Mr Boniface said he could not understand why some of the 40 contractors had been able to raise their buildings to a certain level while others had not even started with the foundation. He said he was worried that mobilization fee for the project were paid to the contractors and yet they could not meet most of the contractors at the site.
He said the Ministry would be forced to terminate the contracts of recalcitrant contractors and they would be made to refund the mobilization fee paid them.
"I am surprised at the pace of the work. The contracts have been given stipulated time. I am not happy at all," Mr Boniface said. Mr Joseph Allotey Cofie, Project Manager and the engineer at the Kpone project site, could not explain why some of the contractors had abandoned the project.
At the Borteyman project site, Mr Kojo Klu, Resident Engineer, said that 14 out of the 92 contractors had been terminated for non-performance.
There are 106 blocks of flats with 744 one-bedroom units and 720 two-bedroom units.
The Sector Minister also visited the Korle Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project and Sodom and Gomorrah, a slum of squatters in Accra, to assess the situation there.
