"Pay us and do not keep your promises" – Road contractors say to the government

General News on Thursday, January 24, 2019

Source: X Y Z

2019-01-24

The road entrepreneurs to whom the government is indebted are unhappy that the government can not be consistent about how to pay off its debt, which is about 2.8 billion cedis.

The call of the Street Contractors Association (ASOROC) comes one day after the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako-Atta, announced that the government had released 3.5 billion cedis to mop up his arrears.

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, who also announced it during the series of press conferences, also revealed that plans for the resumption of cocoa road projects were well advanced.

However, during his intervention on Ete Sen on Radio XYZ 93,1 Wednesday morning, the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the Association of Road Contractors, Mr. Stephen Kwaku Attatsi, said that the government had made many promises to clear the debt, but that they get a service.

He said that they had received a similar promise in December 2018, but that none of its members had been paid, but had instead been ordered to auction their certificates to Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited for funds.

Mr. Attatsi said that although they have not yet received the official announcement from the government, the National Executive Board of the Association had scheduled a meeting to discuss the issue.

"We have not received anything [but] the NEC will meet today … and expose our concerns, "he added.

Although the government has paid more than $ 2.2 billion in arrears, the delay in settling outstanding debt is affecting the construction sector, according to contractors.

Mr. Attatsi, who is also Managing Director of Supreme Bird Investments Limited, revealed how his bankers were pursuing him, along with other road contractors, to repay the loans contracted to embark on the projects, the government n & # 39; 39, having not settled the arrears after many promises.