Governs Kwame Agbodza, the Minister for Roads and Highways has revealed he is after the Tamale-Walewale Road for a $30 million refund after delivering 1% of work since 2022.
According to Kwame Agbodza despite the $29.6 million payment to the Indian-based construction firm JMC, now rebranded as Kalpatura Projects they have failed to deliver.
On June 5, answering questions on the floor of Parliament the minister revealed that the 20 per cent of the total $158 million contract sum for the first phase of the project, which spans from Savelugu to Walewale.
He revealed that the project was to commence in June 2022 and completed in December 2025 but in March 2024 the contractor issued a notice of termination of the contract.
Speaking on the floor of parliament, Kwame Agbodza stated, “The project cost as documented is $158,617. 764 million, and yet the contractor claimed $29, 648, 180.20. The physical progress on site is 1%. It means that they didn’t even finish clearing the site.
The contractor, in addition to the almost $30 million, is attempting to claim another $14 million for no work done. And now decided that after we leave them out of the contract for us to terminate”.
He added, “Mr Speaker, as a Road Minister, knowing that I owe Ghanaian contractors over GHC21 billion, it is quite disheartening that at the same time we are unable to pay Ghanaian contractors for what they have done, we’ve paid contractor $30 million and the person is asking us to let him go with our money.
We shall use the laws to demand that the $30 million worth of work is done, or we will take legal action to make sure we take our money.”
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