Residents of Adamtombiisiko, a community within the Konkua-Daliga Electoral Area in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region are unhappy that more than 2 years after a water project was started in the community, it remains incomplete. This is after a contractor working on the community’s mechanised borehole project absconded.
Adamtombiisiko is a farming community with about 150 households and a population of over 500. Unfortunately, the community does not have a source of potable drinking water.
Two months before the 2020 general election, the Bongo District Assembly, with funding from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), through the former District Chief Executive Peter Ayinbisa, awarded a contract for the construction of a mechanised borehole for the community.
Because of the lack of completion, the project rots away to this day, according to the Assemblyman for the area, Solomon Anabia Asampana. Mr. Asampana said this when he spoke to Mark Smith today, March 27, 2023, on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show.
“That was the first borehole I was given as an assemblyman. You know 2020 was an election year, so they came and drilled the borehole. The sponsorship was coming from GNPC. They paid the money to the Assembly to drill two boreholes in the district. My community was one of them. Currently, if you get there, you will see how the place is. It has not been completed since 2020.”
According to Mr. Asampana, the borehole has been drilled, but it has yet to be mechanised properly. He explained that the contractor initially used inferior materials and so a raised platform to hold a 5-litre polytank collapsed.
Due to the urgent need for the facility, community members committed their time and skills to ensure that it would be completed in time, but all of that was for nothing, Mr. Asapana said.
Attempts to reach the contractor to finish the projects have proven futile. Additionally, the Assembly has been unable to draw the contractor’s attention to completing the facility, even though full funds have been disbursed to the contractor.
According to the Assemblyman, a secondary hand pump borehole has been drilled to supply water the the residents of the area while attempts to finish the construction of the mechanised borehole continue.
Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana
