E-Block school projects across the country have not been abandoned contrary to claims by some members of the public, the Fixing the Country Movement, an affiliation of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stated.
It called on all well-meaning Ghanaians to be rest assured that all uncompleted government projects had not been ignored.
“The NPP government has the interest of all at heart, there is no way government will abandon projects so the public should not believe any false information about the government abandoning projects started by the previous administration and the government is even paying contractors who have not been paid after agreement with the last administration,” it added.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Sunday, the convener of the group, Ernest Owusu-Bempah, stated that before the inception of the Akufo-Addo-led administration, only 29 E-block schools had been completed and operational, with the rest either at ground level or having no sign of construction.
Statistics from the Ghana Education Service (GES), he explained that when the previous government left office, only 29 out of 200 of its E-block day schools had been completed while the current government had so far completed 31 E-block schools.
Mr Owusu-Bempah bemoaned steps taken by the president to continue the projects, some opposition party members remained poised on tarnishing the reputation of the government.
“President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has completed 31 of the E-Blocks under the Secondary Education Improvement Programme and as part of increased efforts to provide infrastructure in the implementation of the Free Senior High School programme,” Mr Owusu-Bempah added.
Touching on developmental projects undertaken by the NPP government in the Volta Region, he noted that various infrastructural projects had been undertaken and completed while many others were ongoing in efforts to give the region a facelift.
He described as misleading, claims that the region had been abandoned by the government in terms of progress, growth and development.
BY RAISSA SAMBOU
