President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will on Friday, November 29, 2019 officially cut sod for the construction of the $750 million dollar Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam project in the Upper East Region.
The $750 million project will provide 60 megawatts of hydro-electricity and 50 megawatts of solar power to stabilise power supply in Northern Ghana.
The project when completed would further develop 25,000 hectares irrigation scheme for agriculture and control floods along the White Volta River in the region.
The irrigation scheme component of the project is also expected to promote large commercial farming and has the potential to increase annual rice and maize production in the country up to 117,000 tonnes and 49,000 tonnes respectively and reducing imports of these grains by 16 per cent and 32 per cent respectively.
The sod cutting ceremony would pave way for the construction works on the project to begin and expected to be completed within a period of four years.
In a statement issued and signed by the Upper East Regional Coordinating Director, Alhaji Mahamadu Azonko and copied to the Ghanaian Times here in Bolgatanga on Saturday, other ministers of state would accompany the President to grace the ceremony.
“The $750 million project will provide 60 megawatts of hydro-electricity and 50 megawatts of solar power to stabilise power supply in Northern Ghana. It will further develop 25,000 hectares irrigation scheme for agriculture and control floods along the White Volta River in the region,” The statement stressed.
It said the ceremony which is scheduled to place at 9am in the Talensi District near the toll booth would also be attended by representatives from the Ministries of Energy, and Food and Agriculture, the Chinese Embassy, traditional authorities, municipal and district assemblies.
The statement, therefore, called on members of the public particularly those around the five regions of the north enclaves to make time to grace the occasion.
The Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam is located on the White Volta River on the boundary of the Upper East and North East regions.
FROM SAMUEL AKAPULE, BOLGATANGA
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