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August 30, 2024
The Member of Parliament for La Dadekotopon Rita Naa Odoley Sowah has expressed worry over the absence of dredging of the Kpeshie Lagoon for the past four years pointing out that it’s the cause of flooding that they experience.
In an interview she pointed out that she posed question to the then Minister for Works and Housing in June 2021 and currently in 2024 but nothing has happened.
Hence as a member of the Government Assurance Committee she asked a question on it when the sector minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah appeared before the Committee.
“We experience flooding when it rains and as we speak there has been a lot of encroachment along the Lagoon which will make working very difficult for them. Three years down the line entering the fourth year, where I had to bring up some concerns of my constituents, there are some projects they fast tracked; they go through the procurement system hurriedly”.
And I do not agree with the Minister and the ministry at the pace at which they are working. They talked about a committee doing this, they are very slow on it, they might not get access to the Lagoon to dredge as we have encroachment ongoing; they should speed up, she added.
She noted that, “in 2021, then Minister when I ask the question said they are looking forward for the bridge to be constructed before they carry out the dredging, but it has taken forever and the bridge has not been completed and the Ministry of Roads should also fast truck the road construction which we are told is delaying”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com