We have "bad engineers and not bad contractors'' - Minister

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• MINISTER 12 years ago

  The minister got it all wrong. Contractors do not have any incentive to perform because no one is sanctioned for poor job. If people go to jail for deviating from specs just to for cutting corners sake and people die or are ...
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  The minister got it all wrong. Contractors do not have any incentive to perform because no one is sanctioned for poor job. If people go to jail for deviating from specs just to for cutting corners sake and people die or are injured, contractors will sit up. What happened to the contractor who built the mall that collapsed at Achimota?

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• Justice Kpegah jnr. 12 years ago

  What do you mean by bad engineers?
  Is it the design, the spec or the supervision or what? If it is only the supervision that made BAD engineers, then I think you have not got it.
  Please check your head again and come.

  What do you mean by bad engineers?
  Is it the design, the spec or the supervision or what? If it is only the supervision that made BAD engineers, then I think you have not got it.
  Please check your head again and come.

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• Chris 12 years ago

  They are all bad because of corruption.

  They are all bad because of corruption.

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• Thomas Quaye 12 years ago

  I feel pity for the minister to pronounce that we have bad engineers in Ghana. It is the politicians like the ministers who are corrupt and have plunged the nation to ditch. Ghana has fine engineers who are highly rated both ...
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  I feel pity for the minister to pronounce that we have bad engineers in Ghana. It is the politicians like the ministers who are corrupt and have plunged the nation to ditch. Ghana has fine engineers who are highly rated both within and outside the country. The minister must bow his head in shame, retract that shallow minded statement and apologies to the. Ghana institution of Engineers

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• Reason well 12 years ago

  Most Ghana Engineers are unethical and this must be pointed out. They connive with the Contractors to do shoddy work. We should be holding both Engineers and Contractors responsible for abusing our trust. They should be held ...
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  Most Ghana Engineers are unethical and this must be pointed out. They connive with the Contractors to do shoddy work. We should be holding both Engineers and Contractors responsible for abusing our trust. They should be held responsible. It is time to start prosecuting them because it amounts to stealing and endangering the public. If we are not careful, all this clamor for infrastructure will amount to a
  total waste of funds.

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• C.O.D 12 years ago

  Not true! The engineers are not that bad. But the bad things starts with you the minister. Why can`t you hold contractors to the contractual terms? Its because you took a bribe to award the contract so do not come out to badm ...
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  Not true! The engineers are not that bad. But the bad things starts with you the minister. Why can`t you hold contractors to the contractual terms? Its because you took a bribe to award the contract so do not come out to badmouth the engineers.You are all crooks and criminals sinking your own people, knucklehead.

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• Abeeku Mensah 12 years ago

  Is it honorable Sulemani or excuser-in-chief Sulemani? There is nothing, law or protocol, forbidding vendors/contractors to have qualified PE's or pseudo-engineers on payroll that can read and interpret architectural drawings ...
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  Is it honorable Sulemani or excuser-in-chief Sulemani? There is nothing, law or protocol, forbidding vendors/contractors to have qualified PE's or pseudo-engineers on payroll that can read and interpret architectural drawings. In my own job capacity as a systems engineer working with qualified PE’s, I have been educated to read and confidently evaluate drawings/blue prints.
  The question to this minister of Transportation and roads is how are construction projects to be executed according to submission presented for bids if contractors are incapable of reading and or interpreting documents? If a qualified contractor with love of nation accepts a job contract, they are morally bound to bring foolishness or inaccurate engineering prints on the part of architects to the attention to the people with jurisdiction; anything else is a waste of time. It remind me of the many untrained Ghanaian building contractors some of whom cannot tell what is an overlooking balcony and or sunken living room floor space.

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• Ben 12 years ago

  The. Minister got this wrong. Can Sulemani tell us the people how many contracts have been awarded to contractors purely based on commercial and technical considerations without POLITICAL INTERFERENCE BY POLITICIANS. Can Sule ...
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  The. Minister got this wrong. Can Sulemani tell us the people how many contracts have been awarded to contractors purely based on commercial and technical considerations without POLITICAL INTERFERENCE BY POLITICIANS. Can Sulemani explain why Contractors in Ghana have been tagged as belonging either NDC or NPP. Why are Sulemani and his colleague politicians only interested in procurement of works and services only as soon as they get into office. All the problems of are happening under Sulemani's leadership as a Minister, why should he be in Office? Only politicians will keep such people in office because they only steal the taxes paid by the people.

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• clarence 12 years ago

  I think we have both corrupt and shoddy contractors as well as bad and corrupt engineers, that is why people construct bad roads/buildings things all the time. The administrator, engineers at the various government departme ...
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  I think we have both corrupt and shoddy contractors as well as bad and corrupt engineers, that is why people construct bad roads/buildings things all the time. The administrator, engineers at the various government departments must stop taking or collecting money from contactors before awarding them with contracts. That is why we have such bad roads in our country. The contractors part with huge sums of moneys and cannot be bothered if the road is badly contracted or not. as in the UK if you construct any roads and it does not last for a number of years the contractor is responsible for its reconstruction. Its time people are held for their actions. Above all whoever is responsible for giving the green light for any road constructed must be jailed when roads do not last long. Yaa br3 ne pot holes.

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• jagadu 12 years ago

  THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST STATEMENTS TO EVER COME FROM A MINISTER. GIS DO YOUR JOB AND SANCTION THESE SCRUPULOUS ENGINEERS WHO COLLUDES WITH THE CONTRACTOR. THEIR JOB IS TO MONITOR THE CONSTRUCTION.

  THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST STATEMENTS TO EVER COME FROM A MINISTER. GIS DO YOUR JOB AND SANCTION THESE SCRUPULOUS ENGINEERS WHO COLLUDES WITH THE CONTRACTOR. THEIR JOB IS TO MONITOR THE CONSTRUCTION.

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• Toronto T 12 years ago

  Tribalistic minister. You know you don't qualify and that you got the job because Mahama is also from the north?.....

  Tribalistic minister. You know you don't qualify and that you got the job because Mahama is also from the north?.....

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