‘Uproot dysfunctional system’ - Barker-Vormawor reacts to ‘shoddy’ road works

Private legal practitioner, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has called for punitive action against mandated officials who fail to crack whip on non-performing road contractors.

He argued that the real problem exposed by the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwame Agbodza's inspection is the absence of accountability within the public sector.

In a Facebook post shared on July 9, 2026, Barker-Vormawor said it was troubling that a policymaker had to personally visit project sites to uncover shoddy work, questioning the effectiveness of the country's oversight systems.

"I really feel for Kwame Agbodza. In [which] sane country does it take the minister himself (the policy maker) to be the one doing the site visits and realizing shoddy work?" he wrote.

He, however, stressed that the bigger concern was that public officials responsible for supervising such projects continue to face little or no consequences despite poor performance.

'Government will not tolerate shoddy work' – Kwame Agbodza

"… the real tragedy is not that Agbodza is visiting sites; the real tragedy is that there is no accountability and those officials continue to earn their keep, their pension and their chobo at the expense of the Ghanaian taxpayers and their minimum expectations of dignity," he stated.

According to Barker-Vormawor, Ghana cannot expect meaningful progress if governance systems continue to tolerate inefficiency and indiscipline.

He described the public sector as suffering from deep-rooted dysfunction, insisting that genuine national reform must go beyond managing existing problems.

"The system is rotten. There is too much indiscipline in the public sector. True reset cannot be managing the rot. It must mean we uproot this dysfunctional system root and stem," he added.

His reaction follows a meeting with some regional ministers and DCE’s during site monitoring, in which he scolded them for not reporting non-performing contractors.

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