Makafui Woanyah, the NPP’s regional chairman for the Volta region, claims that work has always been going on in the background for such huge projects.
A such preparatory effort made it easier to complete feasibility studies and publish recent advertising for expressions of interest. Furthermore, Mr. Woanyah argued that it would be malicious for anyone to claim that the Keta Port project is dead given that Parliament recently approved the funding for the development of the office complex.
The Keta Port Project is still alive, as has been reaffirmed to the people of Anlo and the Volta Region.
The NPP Chairman’s pledge comes in response to opposite assertions made by the Keta Member of Parliament, Kwame Dzidzorli Agakpey, who said that the Port was a dead project and evidence that the government was uncommitted to it and the Volta region’s residents.
During a recent visit to the project’s allocated area, he asserted that the only thing the government had accomplished was to choose a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the hypothetical Keta Port.
As a result, the CEO is receiving compensation for services that have not been rendered, and the Keta Port project appears to be “a job for the boys.”
The MP emphasized that the project’s sole purpose was to convince the locals and the greater Volta region into casting their votes.
But last Thursday, January 19, 2023, the NPP Regional Chairman characterized the Keta MP as mischievous and dishonest with the facts during a news conference.
He added that it is also the historical reality that the development and completion of significant Port projects take decades. Second, much more would have been accomplished if not for the Coronavirus epidemic, which halted the majority of the international involvement in the project.
Despite the odds, the Keta Port project has had its processes fast-tracked, hence the progress made so far. “The opposition is just being mischievous, knowing the long processes it entails,” he stressed.
“So it is disingenuous for the MP of Keta, Kwame Dzidzorli Agakpey, to mobilize some journalists to the site recently and accuse the government of non-commitment. What is the moral right of the NDC when they never conceived the idea?” he questioned.
In his opinion, the greater section of the Keta Sea Defence’s completion serves as evidence that the NPP has consistently kept its promises to the Anlo Projects better than the NDC has ever done.
The Keta Sea Port was supposed to be built before the 2016 general elections, but no tangible infrastructure has been spotted there as of yet. The pledge came from the NPP, which was then the opposition but is now the ruling party.
