Head of Media Relations for Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s Foundation, Moses Antwi-Benefo has revealed that the contractor working on the Efia-Kuma AstroTurf has been given three weeks to finalise the project.
The Head of GNPC Foundation Media PR, who’s popularly referred to as PJ Mosey touched on several other issues in a conversation with Oti-Asirifi Mensah Joseph of Skyy Media Group.
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Regarding the Efia-Kuma project which has some other deformities due to an oversight on the part of the contractor, Antwi-Benefo added that on Friday, June 1, 2020 conversation between the financiers[GNPC Foundation] and the contractor working on that project ended with the latter requested for additional 3 weeks to finalise the ills.
“We have given the contractor 3 weeks ultimatum and it started last week Friday, the pitch becomes soggy after every rainfall so hopefully, after the three weeks we won’t have such anomaly”.
PJ outlined how projects of the GNPC Foundation come to the fore; adding that requests first comes in from the chiefs and then they[GNPC Foundation] award the contract and follow up with supervisions.
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“All our projects are requests from the chiefs, we have to know whether they are using the funds meant for the project. We are not suppose to go public to declare the name of the contractor and the cost of the project, but it doesn’t mean journalists can’t do same”.
“We first give the contractor the mobilization fund, then along the line we give you[contractor] second trench and third trench. Our monitoring and evaluation team will pick it up then we hand it over so after six months of usage we again inspect and if it’s still in shape we add the final 10 percent”.
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He concluded the conversation with a directive on how Gyandu Park can be lifted from it’s current state and how a conversation in 2018 stalled because of the transfer of the then Regional Sports Authority boss, Jeffrey Miezah.
“Gyandu Park, we have had conversation on it in 2018, but the Regional Sports Authority boss then has been transferred so that’s why the conversation has stalled in a way. But journalists in the region can pick it up and come with a proposal for the board to look through” – Moses Antwi-Benefo on Skyy Power FM.
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