Hawa Koomson Will Probably Be Continued In The Future – Sammy Gyamfi | Policy

Sammy Gyamfi, head of communications at the Democratic National Congress, the largest opposition party, revealed that the Mahama-led government would sue Mavis Hawa Koomson for intentionally prosecuting the state for its loss. after his victory in the 2020 legislative elections.

According to him, the Minister of Special Development Initiatives, Hawa Koomson is a potential candidate for future prosecution for awarding contracts to uncertified contractors who have no expertise in dam construction. irrigation, engaging in poor work at the expense of taxpayer money.

Speak on Ok FM Samy Gyamfi, the morning show "Ade Akye Abia", warned the industry minister insistently that his camp would be agitating to press for his lawsuit to be filed for the harm caused to the state if it did not abstain from bad practices.

"Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson is a potential candidate for prosecution in the future. If she does not stop what she does, a day when the change of government will eventually take place, some of us will insist she be sued for deliberately causing Financial losses to the state because the contractors to whom it has awarded the contracts, do not even have a certificate from the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority. However, they give them taxpayers' money to build dug out canoes and dug ponds, some of which are washed away because of poor quality work ", he reprimanded.

According to him, his checks with the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority clearly indicate that most of the entrepreneurs who manage projects from one village to the other are not certified to go into small irrigation dams .

"I say it's a simple task for you and your producer. After all, Nana Addo says that he has enacted the Freedom of Information Act, even though the law is not in force, I believe that, good fate, you want information, you will not have trouble to obtain them. Call the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority and ask if the dam is a specialized job that only a category of certified contractors can build or that any contractor can perform. " he told the host Kwame Nkrumah Tikese.

He therefore described the fact that the dams under construction are a "waste of state resources" defended by the government led by Akufo-Addo.

"I am not a prophet of misfortune, but remember that there will be no water in the dams during the dry season, for which dams are built to help farmers, especially in the North," he predicted.

He pontificated, however, that the small-scale irrigation dams are more like ponds and dug ponds; a real small irrigation dam therefore can not cost 256,000 Ghc compared to a similar dam built by JICA in the north at the cost of Ghs2. 4 million each.