$1m per Constituency: MP takes on Government

Member of Parliament for the Adaklu constituency in the Volta Region, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has challenged the Government to provide evidence on projects it claims to have constructed in the Adaklu constituency under the flagship One Million per Constituency programme.

According to the MP, out of a list of 12 projects presented to Parliament by the Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson who was in the Parliament to answer questions related to her sector, only two of the projects were actually on the ground.

“I want to make it clear to the Minister that apart from the ambulance that she said, which we all know Adaklu is a beneficiary, and one three unit classroom block which has been started, none of the project is evident in Adaklu,” he claimed.

The Minister for Special Development Initiatives had told Parliament that the Government had allocated a number of projects to the Adaklu Constituency amounting to about GHC 6,718,788.74.

The MP also contested the amount of money the Minister claims as the cost of the projects listed in her answer.

“When you say you spent 6.7 million, the Adaklu people are expecting me to tell them that this is what has been done…Mr. Speaker, they didn’t spend 6.7 Million in Adaklu because some of the projects don’t even exist,” Mr. Agbodza alleged.

The Minister outlined a list of 12 projects including toilets, classroom blocks and mechanized boreholes at various levels of completion in the various communities in the Adaklu constituency in an answer to the Parliamentary question filed by the MP for Adaklu, who wanted to know how much of the One Million Dollars per Constituency has been disbursed in Adaklu so far.

Below is the Minister’s full answer to the MPs question.

The Adaklu Constituency has been allocated the under listed projects. These projects are at various stages of completion except the ambulance, which has been duly delivered.

1. Three (3) No. 10-Seater Water Closet Institutional Toilets with Mechanized Boreholes located at Adaklu Anfoe, Adaklu Waya and Adaklu Ahunda communities
2. Three (3) No. Community-based Mechanized Solar Powered Water Systems located at Amuzudeve, Dgnanu and Akpakopc communities
3. One (1) No. Two unit Kindergarten Classroom Block with ancillary facilities at Adaklu Wayanu
4. Five (5) Mechanized Boreholes located at Seva, Anfoe, Dorkpo, Hehekpoe, and Kpodzi Mangoase Communities
5. Construction of 1N0. CHPS Compound at Dzakpo
6. Construction of 1N0. 3-Unit classroom block with ancillary facilities at Sofa JHS
7. Construction of 1N0. 6-Unit classroom block with ancillary facilities at Dorkpo Basic School
8. Supply of 180 No dual desks, 11 No. Teachers’ tables and chairs to Dorkpo Basic and Sofa JHS
9. Construction of 2N0. 20seater disability friendly WC toilet with ancillary facilities at Waya
10. Construction of 2N0. 20-seater disability friendly WC toilet with ancillary facilities at Adaklu Senior High School
11. Construction of eight (8) No. mechanized Boreholes across the Adaklu Constituency
12. One equipped Ambulance

Mr. Speaker, the total cost of the above mentioned projects for Adaklu Constituency amounts to Six Million, Seven Hundred and Eighteen Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty Eight Ghana Cedis and Seventy Four Pesewas (GHS 6,718,788.74).

Source: Clement Akoloh || africanewsradio.com