Department of Feeder Roads to end Asonge-Zalerigu-Pelungu street contract - Minister
The Department of Feeder Roads has started the essential authoritative cycle to end the Asonge-Zalerigu-Pelungu street contact in the Upper East Region.
Mr Kwasi Amoako-Attah, the Minister of Roads and Highways, said exceptional chips away at the Asonge-Zalerigu-Pelungu street agreement would be repackaged with the additional seepage designs to be given on the Pelungu-Sakoti segment for re-grant after the end.
The Minister made the disclosure on the floor of Parliament in his reaction to inquiries by Dr Mark Kurt Nawaane, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nabdam.
The MP got some information about the situation with the Asonge-Zalerigu-Pelungu-Sakoti street, which was under development yet as of now seems to have halted.
He likewise needed to be aware from the Minister about the situation with the Kongo-Bongo Soe (Akayonga) street.
The Asonge-Zalerigu-Pelungu-Sakoti street is a 16.5km designed street situated in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region.
The Minister said the Asonge-Zalerigu-Pelungu (7.5km) part of the street was an earth street in horrible shape while the Pelungu-Asakoti (9.0km) stretch has a rock surface in fair condition.
Concerning the Asonge-Zalerigu-Pelungu feeder street (7.5km), Mr Amoako-Attah said the agreement for the bitumen surfacing of the Asonge-Zalerigu-Pelungu feeder raod (7.5km) was planned to initiate on 22nd May 2018 for fruition by 21st May 2019.
He said the project worker deserted the site in the wake of accomplishing actual advancement of 23% and that cautioning letters were given to the worker for hire to reactivate the site yet it keeps on being idle.
He said the Department of Feeder Roads had started the important legally binding method to end the agreement and repackage for grant under the 2023 financial plan.
Addressing the Pelungu-Sakoti feeder street (9.0km), the Minister said the agreement for the restoration of Pelungu-Sakoti (9.0) was granted as a feature of the agreement named "Recovery of Zuarungu-Kongo Feeder Road and other (40.60km).
He said the agreement initiated on 22nd May 2018 and was planned for finishing on 21st August 2019 yet was stretched out to twentieth February 2021 because of extra works gave to the project worker.
He said the particular exercises did on the Pelungu-Sakoti street included; getting and arrangement free from the street. development of seepage structures and graveling of the whole 9.0km which were finished in August 2019, and that there had been a waste of time at km3+070 where a container duct is found.
He said water driven and hydrological studies were to be completed to decide the size and number of additional waste designs to be introduced inside the impacted segment to give satisfactory ability to forestall future overtopping of the street.
With respect to the situation with the Kongo-Bongo Soe (Akayonga) street, the Minister said the 16.5km street was in horrendous shape.
He said the street joins Kongo in the Nabdam District to Bongo Soe (Akayonga) in the Bongo District, which are networks situated in the Upper East Region.
Mr Amoako-Attah said the street was granted on agreement for spot improvement under the agreement named "Spoy Improvement of Bongo-Balungu-Namong feeder streets and others (40.4km).
He said the agreement was booked to initiate on eighteenth June 2018 to be finished seventeenth June 2019; adding that the expected fulfillment date was reached out to seventeenth February 2021 because of the extra works.
"The worker for hire has up until this point chipped away at the Bongo-Balungu-Namong feeder street (8.0km) and is yet to deal with the Kongo-Bongo Soe (Akayonga) street," Mr Amoako-Attah said.
"Work finished to date is 39% state of being."
He said the Department of Feeder Roads was doing whatever it takes to return the worker for hire once again to the site to finish deals with the Kongo-Bongo Soea (Akayonga) street.
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