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In a press release copied on Peacefmonline.com, Mr. Kabore Moro suggested that the 3-minute interview given to the sector minister in Ghanaweb, which became viral, was misunderstood, taken out of context and presented in inaccurately because she never wanted to say that a major dam can not be built by her ministry.
"I would like to record after listening to the entirety of the interview, the Hon. Hawa Koomson's statements that have become viral have been misunderstood, taken out of context and misrepresented.
She never meant that her ministry could not build SIGNIFICANT dams because of budget allocations, but instead she wanted to refer to the size of the roadblocks with regard to the propaganda of political opponents who seemed to suggest that Akosombo dams should have been built instead of the earth dams built", The statement said.
Read PRO's full press release for the Department of Special Development:
Our attention was drawn to an excerpt from a lengthy interview given to Ghanaweb in which the Minister of the Special Development Initiative, the Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson is expected to comment on the construction of the One One government initiative, One Dam.
I would like to record after listening to the entirety of the interview, the Hon. Hawa Koomson's statements that have become viral have been misunderstood, taken out of context and misrepresented.
She never meant that a SIGNIFICANT dam could not be built by her department because of the budget allocation, but she rather wanted to refer to the size of the dams in relation to the Propaganda of political opponents who seemed to suggest that, one should have built an Akosombo dam instead of small earth dams under construction.
It still cites the 250,000 ghc to highlight the types of dams under construction and does not attribute the size of the dams under construction to the amount allocated to the project. In fact, the amount allocated to the dams was based on a correct badessment of the needs.
I think that she was taken completely out of context. The interview she gave lasted about 3 minutes, but for some unknown reason, some people decided to cut only 30 seconds of section, apparently to take her out of context and do the wrong thing.
I want to say that the department is building appropriate and significant dams in the northern regions, which can serve beneficiary communities in the five northern regions.
Dams under construction are fit for purpose and constitute a prudent use of state resources.
Dam types under construction are well designed and adapted to the beneficiary communities. In other words, there are different types of dams of different sizes; small earth dams, concrete dams, larger dams.
MSDI is currently building smaller types of dams, called small dams.
Kabore Awudu Moro
PRO, Ministry of Special Development Initiatives.
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