A member of the Upper East Regional Communication team of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Moses Amoah has refuted the claim that the Pawlungu Multi-Purpose dam is currently halted.
According to the information from some media outlets, CSOs, and some respected citizens in the region who have visited the site, they said workers at the site scene have packed all their materials out from the site. In fact, an NDC communicator during a programme described the state of the current site scene as a grazing yard, stressing that nothing is happening.
However, responding to the claim that workers at the Pawlugu site can no longer be found, Mr. Amoah agrees with the fact that “there have been some delays in the project and all of us are not happy but the groundwork has started and the government is committed. He stressed
According to him, “As we speak, work is currently ongoing at the Pwalungu Multi-Purpose dam, the relocation process is ongoing, and quantity surveyors are there probably looking at how they can pay compensation to people, they are looking at how they move a different community to another community. He claimed
“We have to move it from the rhetoric, we are even better. The NDC came and diverted funds that were secured by Former President Kufour from the Brazilian government to Eastern Corridor road so we are even better. As we speak, there is an office located in Tema for the pawlungu Multi-purpose dam”.
Meanwhile, on November 29th, 2019, the President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency (H.E.) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, cut the sod for the construction of the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam Project.
The project, which is the single largest investment ever made in the Northern part of Ghana, and is estimated to cost US$993 million, would consist of a Hydro-Solar hybrid system of 60 MW Hydro Power and 50 MW Solar Power.
The Multi-Purpose Dam, expected to be completed in four years, would control the perennial flooding in the Northern regions caused by heavy rains and the spillage from the Bagre Dam.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen|Ghana
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