By Hellen Adjaklo
The five Kilometer Ningo-Prampram Coastal Protection project was commissioned in 2019 and was expected to be completed in 2023.
As at May 2022, the project is just fifty percent complete. The project when completed, will divert tidal currents which was destroying properties along the coastline.
The construction begun on the Prampram project in June 2019 and continued for six months and was halted due to insufficient funding.
Work resumed again in the early months of 2020, but was halted again due to COVID-19 pandemic which later continued in July. Construction continued on the site and was paused just right in November for the preparation for the 2020 general elections. Government instructed the contractor to resume on the project where work continued until April 2022.
The contractor paused working on the project awaiting government instructions.
Residents along the coastline who are directly affected by this delay say, the tidal waves this time of the year is very strong and violent and is unbearable and that when the tidal waves become so hard, they have to leave their homes and go to friends and relatives and seek refuge.
According to the project manager Osei Sarpong, 24 groynes out of the planned 48 had been constructed so far.
He said groyne was the preferred design for the GH¢393 million (three hundred and ninety-three million Ghana cedis) project due to its positive environmental impact on the turtle inhabiting the coastline of the area.
He attributed the delay of the project to insufficient funds from government, the use of the coastline for open defecation and the continuous sand winning along the Prampram coastline by the indigenes.
The project, awarded on contract in October 2019, is expected to be completed in October 2023.
