Review Northern flood projects - Experts

Sapeliga (U/E), Aug. 22, GNA - Experts have called for review of the conditions under the Northern Floods Reconstruction Project (NFRP), currently underway in the Upper East Region.

The proposal follows continuous rains invariably hampering the smooth implementation of the project as contractors awarded contracts under the Project could not have access to their sites.

The experts, who were mainly engineers including the National Coordinator of the Community Based Rural Development Programme (CBRDP), Mr Brown Matthew Oppong, Mr Baba Imoro Abdulai, Northern Zonal Coordinator of CBRDP and other District Engineers, made the proposal on the second day of the Deputy Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Environment (LGRDE), Alhaji Awudu Yirimeah's inspection tour of the Bawku West District.

The tour was to inspect a number of roads being rehabilitated under the NFRP.

The communities benefiting from the NFRP in the district include the Kukurzua-Widnaba, Zebilla-Zabre and Kubore-Sapeliga feeder roads. At Kukurzua-Widnaba the road, which was completed by Mashidons Enterprise and was to be handed over to the assembly, had been washed off by recent rains.

The experts proposed a revalue of work and suggested the need for some concrete paves on some portions of the road and an additional culvert to allow excess water to flow freely.

Earlier, Alhaji Yirimeah called at the offices of the Bawku West District where the Chief Executive, Desmond Bugbilla, briefed him on the situation in the area and said following the continuous rain, some roads had been washed off, thereby, preventing the assembly from distributing dual desks meant for some selected schools in the area. He said the desks were currently packed at the assembly and exposed to the rains.