Ghana’s Odaw-Circle drainage system to get $200mln from World Bank for reconstruction

Ghana highly required the reconstruction of Odaw-Circle drainage system. Now it has received approval of USD 200 million from the World Bank to forestall the perennial flooding at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle and other parts of Accra.

According to Samuel Atta Akyea, Minister of Works and Housing, the approval was given on May 30 this year, and it was said that the construction of the drains would improve the drainage system. “On May 30, 2019, the World Bank approved USD 200 million to do the Odaw-Circle challenge. That is very good news for this country. It is going to affect the drainage system in Accra,” he said.

 The construction work is part of the GH¢2-billion drainage system project in Nsawam awarded to Prompto Logistics. The other areas slated to benefit from the project, initiated by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsawam-Adoagyiri, Mr Frank Annoh-Dompreh, are Osae Gyan, Methodist and Prisons, all suburbs of the Nsawam-Adoagyiri area, as reported by Graphic Online.

Ghana’s Head of State, Nana Akufo-Addo has given the instruction to the ministry to concentrate on the construction of subterranean drains across the nation to do away with open drains. Defined as capital intensive, the project was estimated at around USD 5.6 billion.

“We are putting before the Cabinet that we need huge capital injection. The assessment so far tentatively is about USD 5.6 billion for us to do a world-class drainage system. It will solve, comprehensively, what has been mocking this nation since Dr Kwame Nkrumah's days,” Akyea added.

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