A group of farmers known as the Nobekor Irrigation Farmers’ Cooperative Union in the Asunafo South District of the Brong Ahafo Region have questioned government’s inclusion of an irrigation project in the area in its Green Book of achievements.
The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has catalogued projects undertaken by the administration in the book, ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections in November 2016.
But the association, led by its secretary Agyeman Duah, wants the entry of the irrigation project in the Green Book, on page 144, scrapped.
Speaking with Obeng Mensah on Accra 100.5 FM’s midday news on Wednesday April 27, he said the Nobekor irrigation project started under the erstwhile Kufuor regime on April 27, 2006, and was expected to be completed in 2007, but the contractor could not meet the deadline, following which the project was handed to a new contractor and work progressed.
He said construction resumed on the site until the project was about 80 per cent complete, by which time the then NPP government left office. Mr Agyemang Duah said the contractor refused to return to the site once power changed hands and the project had not been completed since.
According to him, the farmers’ association at Nobekor had also collapsed because the tractor sent to the site by the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA) for their use had been taken off site by the district assembly.
Source: classfmonline.com
