Vice-president IMANI Africa, Bright Simons has boldly stated the Pwalugu Dam project must be viewed as a classical ORAL fashion.
According to Bright Simons, somebody has taken Ghana’s $12m, and Ghanaians want it back.
His comments come after Agric Minister Eric Opoku revealed the Pwalugu Dam contract is set to be terminated.
Bright Simons in a long write up on X wrote, “ PowerChina, the contractor on the project, has already departed the site many months ago. The contractor has sold project materials and “de-mobilised”. The agreement has thus already been constructively terminated. Termination is hardly the big issue here”.
“In short, we need a critical mass of citizens that won’t settle for the opaque governance we have in Ghana currently. Who will push for the “optimal transparency” needed to truly analyse the quality of government’s policy actions? Would we ever see such a critical mass emerge?”
Part of his statement further reads, “But as I have explained above, it is a far more complex issue. Full transparency would help clarify how the country will save or recover money. It won’t be as simple as just “retrieving” what was paid. Most ORAL situations look like this.
Citizens who support ORAL must therefore learn to be interested in detail and push the new government to ditch the opaque model we have become accustomed to and embrace a new era of openness and analysis”.
Bright Simons further noted that for any real change to come, Ghanaians especially those in the middle classes, must stop being satisfied with headline announcements and surface measures.
See his post below:
Here is my prayer:
That a time will come when the middle-classes won’t allow a Minister to get away with “broad generalities” in Ghana.
When he says, Ghana will terminate the Pwalugu Dam contract, we would ask the following:
1. PowerChina, the contractor on the project, has… pic.twitter.com/efT145QzmV
— Bright Simons (@BBSimons) February 2, 2025
