Non-performing contractors to lose jobs

Mr Alex Twumasi-Boakye, Director of Urban Roads, has urged contractors in Tamale not to hold back the development of the Municipality by poor work and delays in projects delivery.

He said they would be denying the people in the Municipality of the much-needed development if they delayed in the execution of projects.

Mr Twumasi-Boakye was addressing contractors working on Urban Roads projects at a meeting in Tamale on Wednesday.

The meeting was to afford him the opportunity to learn about their problems with the view to finding solution to them.

He warned that the Department would not hesitate to terminate contracts of non-performing contractors if for no reason they delayed in the execution of projects.

He said "we will not sit down unconcerned to allow you to deny the people of development projects since we are not the cause of the delays in such projects."

The Urban Roads Director said the Department did not understand why the contractors delayed in job delivery since most of them who were not performing well were those that the department did not owe.

"As it is, we will not allow new projects if all ongoing jobs are not completed on schedule and well executed", he said, adding, "if we want Tamale to develop then those non-performing contractors would have their projects terminated".

The Director warned contractors not to give their licences to others to operate within the various regions saying that this would be illegal and could result in their being blacklisted for shoddy work done by those fronting for them.

The contractors could not give any tangible reason for their poor execution of work.

Mr Iddrisu Adam, Tamale Municipal Chief Executive urged the contractors to play their roles well to raise Tamale to Metropolitan status.