and the Presbyterian School that was renovated about four months ago
had its roof ripped off in Sunday's windstorm.The Kpone Traditional
Council had computers and their accessories, files and books damaged
and the elders estimate the cost of damage to be over 600 million
cedis.
A computer room, the chief's office, a library and the general office
were all affected.The Tema Municipal Chief Executive, Mr David Quaye
Annang, visited the disaster scene and blamed it on inefficiency and
shoddy work by the contractor.He said there was the need for
developers to always engage the services of building experts to offer
advice, supervision and direction at every stage of the construction
to prevent disaster.
Mr Annang said it was about time developers flouting the building
regulations be penalized to serve as deterrent to others. While
pledging a computer and accessories to the Council, he gave the
assurance that the assembly would meet to discuss how best to offer
more assistance.The contractor, Mr Simon Donkor of Simon Simco
Construction Works, said he could not be blamed because he did not
provide the building materials for the project.He said the Project
Committee of the traditional council provided the materials and that
"all I did was to provide labour."
Mr Donkor said the project, which started two years ago, was done in
phases as and when the committee provided the materials.Mr Nathaniel
Nortey, an elder of the council, appealed that communities who are
beneficiaries of projects be involved in its implementation so that
they could offer some correction if things did not go the right way.He
cited an instance where the Chief of the town, Nii Tetteh Out 11, made
suggestions to an engineer during the construction of drainage but he
took offence. Mr Nortey said the engineer told the Chief that he did
not award the contract and in the end the drainage was poorly done
because the town flooded each time it rained.
03 April 07
