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World Bank contributes one million dollars to High Street
Project
Accra, Jan. 16, GNA - The World Bank (WB) has contributed
one million dollars (9.2 billion cedis) to the Accra Central
Business District road rehabilitation projects, which took
off on Monday, January 15, 2007.
Mr Kwesi Nuama, the Road Development Engineer at the
Department of Urban Roads (DUR), told the Ghana News Agency
that the amount was solely to pay for the services of the
consultant for the project, Tahal Consulting Engineers from
Israel and their Ghanaian partners Alpha Consulting.
GNA reported on Monday that the Government had allocated 115
billion cedis for the project, out of which 22 billion cedis
had already been released to the Consultant. However, Mr
Nuama stated that the amount was released to the contractor,
China Railways Wuju Group and not the Consultant.
Meanwhile work was feverishly underway when the GNA visited
the main project site at the Lavender Hill, near Korle Gonno
in Accra on Tuesday morning. The heavy traffic jams, which
characterised the city of Accra, due to the blockage of the
High Street on Monday, had eased considerably.
Mr Nuama told the GNA that the heavy traffic on Monday was
also because the traffic direction from the construction
site was wrong "but we have shown the right alternative
routes to ensure smoother flow of traffic".
GNA
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