The Bolgatanga Municipal District Chief Executive Mr. Rex Asanga has been advised to retract the statement he made against ‘Ghana First Company Limited’ a company under a Public-Private Partnership with the government constructing 10,000 units of modern automated toilet facilities across most metropolitan, municipal, and districts around the country in a Clean Ghana project.
Mr. Asanga on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, during an interview on Yem Fm monitored by Apexnewsgh.com was responding to issues regarding sanitation in the Bolagatanga Municipality and the effort by the assembly is making to eliminate the Canker of Open Defecation (OD)
Meanwhile, responding to the Sanitation Issue, he mentioned that the assembly is initiating a dialogue with the contractors of Ghana First Company Limited to see how they can complete the toilet and put it to use because the company has since disappeared “We also want to increase the number of toilets we have. I don’t know if you have heard about Ghana First toilets. There was some… I don’t know whether is an NGO or an Organization that came around and got people to start building toilets and the people started building the toilet almost to completion and they disappeared up till now. So, we are initiating some dialogue with the contractors of those toilets to see if we can bring the toilets on board to add. I agree with the one who sent in the message that we need many more toilets in the system”. He maintained
However, the MCE also maintained: “Ghana First is not a project of the assembly, is an organization that awarded contracts across the country to individual contractors to construct toilets and they disappeared and left the contractors and some of them have spent all their investment in the construction of the toilets and they can’t find the employer”.
Following the pronouncement by the MCE, Ghana First Company Limited has written a letter requesting a retraction from the MCE for what they claim is a false statement he made against them.
”The letter says: We have intercepted a publication to the effect that, you cannot find Ghana First Company Limited anywhere for discussions on the toilet facilities. You further stated that you were going to mobilize the contractors for them to continue to complete the projects and run the projects with the Assembly”
“We disagree with your statement that, we are nowhere to be found. We are still operating from our office and we have not relocated”.
“We, therefore, wish to advise you to retract your statement in order to avoid any legal action to be instituted against you”.
“We are by this letter, advising you to retract the statement within 14 days upon receipt of this letter, in order to avoid any legal action being instituted against you. We count on your usual cooperation”.
The letter as sighted by Apexnewsgh.com was copied to the Office of the President, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, and the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s Department.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com
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