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Nyanyano chief in a brawl with contractor over classroom block.
The Contractor allegedly refuse to open the newly ready to use classroom over non- payment of his arrears by the government.
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On Monday March 20, the enraged Chief, together with a few others, stormed the new block and broke the padlocks to allow the building to be used.
According to him, he could not understand why the contractor would subject the pupils to inhumane treatment as over 80 of them have been packed into a single classroom with the new ultra-modern and spacious block sitting idle.He told Accra-based ClassFM that, “If the contractor has any issues, he should deal with the government and not subject the innocent children to this ordeal. The children have nothing to discuss with any contractor, it is the assembly or the government that awarded the contract to him, so if he has not been paid, he should go to the assembly to negotiate rather than locking the classrooms."“I decided to break the doors because there is nobody to report to at the assembly now. If you make any attempt they will tell you that there is no DCE at the moment, and so we have to wait for a new DCE to be appointed, and that for me will take some three months. We can’t just be going back and forth on this matter when the children are suffering in the classroom."
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Meanwhile, a former DCE for Gomoa East, Jehu Appiah, has said there is no document at the Assembly covering the award of the contract.According to him, it was a GETFund project that did not go through the assembly, therefore, the assembly could not be held liable for the non-payment of the arrears.He said: “It was not the assembly that awarded the contract. When I came as the DCE, I did not see any documents that indicated that the assembly had awarded that contract. It was a GETFund project and I never saw any document covering that project.”
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