The Upper East Region's Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam project has drawn considerable criticism from the Minority in Parliament because to its projected delays.
Despite spending $12 million on the project, they claim there hasn't been any work on the property.
Speaking to reporters on the scene, Yapei-Kusawgu MP John Jinapor said that all parties engaged in the transaction, which has already cost the state $12 million, would be looked into and put on trial.
"We want to initiate all legislative procedures in order to recover the over 200 million cedis that this contractor has been cheated out of. Someone has to answer for their actions. In this nation, $12 million can go a long way.
"Therefore, we'll employ all just and lawful methods to obtain the funds and penalize those accountable for this financial offense and the state's financial detriment," he said.
His remarks follow a visit to the site of the much-discussed $1 billion Pwalugu Multipurpose Irrigation Dam by the Minority leadership on the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament. The dam was originally scheduled to be finished this year, having been commissioned in 2019.
When the committee leadership, headed by ranking member Hon. John Jinapor, went to Kurugu, the village chief in the Northeast, they found the project site to be vacant of everything except sold-out chippings and stones that the contractor had originally brought in.
The leaders said no one had contacted them about any relocation, and the purported towns that were stated as having been moved by the money provided were remained at their current location.
One of the project's components was to build a roller-compacted concrete dam at the Pwalugu Bridge on the White Volta River, with a reservoir that would encompass 262 square kilometers and a height of 168 meters above sea level.
a powerhouse made up of a 50 megawatt solar power plant and two 60 megawatt Kaplan turbines with installed capacity.
A 20-meter high water weir and a network of canals would be the centerpiece of an irrigation plan that would cover over 25,000 hectares of land.
Jonathan Abdullah, Malik Basintale, the Upper East's regional communication officer, and Hon. Edward Bawa, MP for Bongo, the NDC's deputy national communication officer, were also in the delegation.
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