Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Administrator, Mr. Richard Ampofo Boadu has debunked that the assertion by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the Akufo-Addo government has abandoned Mahama’s uncompleted Community Senior High School (E-block) projects.
According to him, the Akufo-Addo government did not only continue the uncompleted E-block projects but maintained the Consultants that were hired under former President John Dramani Mahama to complete all the Community Senior High School projects (E-Blocks).
Briefing the press at the Ministry of Information on Wednesday, September 16, 2020, Mr. Ampofo Boadu indicated that a total of 124 Community Senior High School Projects (E-Blocks) were awarded between 2014 and 2016 of which 23 were funded by the World Bank.
He added that the remaining 101 Community Senior High School Projects (E-Blocks) are supposed to be funded by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).
The Administrator said that as at the transition in January 2017 to the new management of the GETFund, the previous Mahama government and the GETFund were able to complete 29 of the E-Block Projects between 2015 and 2016.
Breaking it down, he emphasized that 7 out of the 29 completed E-Block Projects within 2015 to 2016 were funded by the World Bank, and the remaining 22 completed Community Senior High School Projects were funded by GETFund.
“The previous government in 2015 to 2016 completed 7 E-Block Projects funded by the World Bank. GETFund however in the same 2015 to 2016 completed 22 of the E-Block Projects making it 29 in total”, he indicated.
He indicated that the Akufo-Addo government in continuation of the Community Senior High School Projects (E-Blocks) from 2017 to 2019 completed 14 of the E-Blocks funded by the World Bank, making the World Bank-funded project moved to 21 completed out of the 23 it promised to fund.
He stressed that the GETFund under President Akufo-Addo has completed 13 of the Community Senior High School Projects within 2017 to 2019; thus, the current government has also within this period completed 27 of the Community Senior High School Projects.
However, out of the 124 Community Senior High School Projects (E-Blocks), 56 have been completed and the remaining 68 are at various levels of completion.
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