The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah has threatened to terminate contracts of non-performing contractors under the Ghana Secondary Cities Support Programme.
He explained that the contractors fail to deliver even after receiving payments from the ministry to complete critical infrastructural development in some 35 municipalities.
Speaking to the media after a tour of the Western and Central Regions, Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah indicated his Ministry’s resolve to terminate the contracts of some contractors was lackadaisical.
The Minister has observed that some contractors deliberately delay the project to secure extra funds from the government adding that the Ministry will not countenance such activities.
“Some have been good, some have not been good. Where it’s not been good, we have put in place measures to ensure that nobody frustrates the government and the people who must be enjoying these projects. We have observed that some contractors who have some agreement with the ministry to work, having been paid what they need under the agreement, have failed to deliver as required.”
“They collect the money and the work is not being done. Where you expect a higher percentage of the work to have been done, there’s nothing there. And what we have been saying is that we can no longer continue to tolerate that.”
“The ministry is building records of all those people and we intend to apply the law to make sure that they don’t even come near our procurement processes next time, let alone have any jobs with us. And again, within the same space, we’ve had the cause to terminate some arrangements because they failed to deliver.”
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