Agenda 111: Some local contractors were changed for lack of capacity – Health Minister

Some local contractors who were engaged for the Agenda 111 project had to be changed for nonperformance, Health Minister Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, has said.

Dr Okoe-Boye explained that the government decided to rely solely on indigenous contractors for this project because the initiative was locally funded.

But in the course of the project, he said, it was realised that some of the contractors did not have the capacity to undertake the construction, hence the decision to change them.

Dr Okey Boye said these while explaining the reasons for the change of timelines for the completion of the project when he appeared before the Parliamentary Committee on Government Assurances on Thursday, August 1.

He blamed struggles to get lands in urban communities and local contractors’ lack of capacity for completion delays.

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He said “In certain places, even towns were fighting over which town we take the decision to host Agenda 111. If we don’t resolve these things and rush you can get a backlash so land issues are the first thing that accounted for the change in the timelines.  Most communities are urbanized, even finding the minimum of three or four acres for Agenda 111 was a problem. So Accra for example,  most places that are part of agenda 111  don’t have the same design of a very smooth flow,

“The second has to do with the fact that Agenda 111 is a programme that tolerates or entertains largely or only Ghanaian contractors. The president was very emphatic, if you check most of the projects done over the years in the Fourth Republic in the health sector, the contractors were foreign contractors and most of the time it so happened with the facility, the country that gives the facility has a way of making sure that the contractors are from their country .

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“This one, [Agenda 111] because we dared to fund it locally, we also said local contractors.  Fortunately or unfortunately, the local contractors are not on the same weight, some made a lot of noise that ‘I can’ but you send them to the site, and for six months they are still struggling. Other contractors, you send them to the site and within six months they are at the lentil level so there are some agenda 111 sites  that the contractor had to be changed for non-performance.”

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