A. Kofoya-Tetteh, Koforidua
ROAD contractors in the Eastern Region have made a passionate appeal to the government to pay them for the contracts they have executed to enable them to settle their creditors.
At a press conference at Koforidua, they said although the Minister of Finance, Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, had in the latter part of last year, come out publicly that all road contractors had been paid, none of them in the region had had their certificates honoured since last July.
They stated that due to publicity on the alleged payment, their creditors had started dragging them to court while some of them had threatened to confiscate their properties.
The contractors said as a result of the unfortunate situation, work on their project sites was coming to a halt because they could not pay their workers.
They, therefore, implored the government to honour its obligations to enable them to pay their workers and creditors.
“None of us has been paid from July, last year and the certificates are still lying at the offices of the Department of Feeder Roads, although Mr Baah-Wiredu assured us in November, last year, that we were going to be paid within two weeks,” they lamented.
According to the contractors, nothing had been given to them as of now and they had borrowed huge sums of money from the banks whose interests kept on increasing, thereby affecting their businesses.
They, therefore, appealed to the government to pay them as soon as practicable for them to settle their indebtedness.
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