The Minister of Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has given Top International Construction, the contractor working on the 71.25-kilometre Enchi–Elubo Road in the Western North Region, until Friday, September 18, to appear before the Ministry with its full Board of Directors or risk having the contract terminated.
The Minister says the contractor has failed to make meaningful progress on the project despite being on site for more than 10 years and receiving several warnings and summons to the Ministry.
The Minister made this announcement during an inspection of the project. Mr. Agbodza expressed concern over the slow pace of work and questioned the contractor’s commitment to completing the project.
He said the Ministry had exhausted several opportunities for the contractor to improve its performance and would now take a firm decision on the future of the project.
The Enchi–Elubo Road is a key route connecting communities in the Western North Region to Elubo and the country’s western corridor.
According to the Minister, the September 18 meeting will be the contractor’s final opportunity to explain its position and demonstrate its readiness to proceed with the project.
“The owner of the company himself never turned up. He is always in Nigeria. He probably has better things to do than to come and do this work. He has taken our 82 million. Indeed, we drove from Enchi, and you can see that the road is slightly better maintained than what it is.
“I am very disappointed in Top International Company. They did not take our instructions to come to the site and work seriously the way we thought they should. Top International basically doesn’t intend to do the work because they think they have our 82 million.
“Wherever the owner of the company and the directors are, Friday at 7 o’clock, or we terminate the job without any further discussion.”
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