The Public Interest and Accountability Committee has raised concerns about the current state of the Anomabo Fisheries College in the Central Region.
According to the committee, the fisheries project which was commenced in 2011 by former late president, John Evans Atta Mills has been neglected for many years.
The facility remains abandoned after several failed promises from governments to commission the school to admit students.
In an exclusive interview with ATL FM NEWS, the coordinator of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee, Isaac Dwamena expressed great distress on the matter.
He explained how the project has been receiving petroleum funding from the committee since 2011, yet no sign of development has occurred.
Highlighting the impact of the abandonment of the school project, he added that the roads leading to the school are slowly deteriorating.
“Anomabo Fisheries College has received petroleum revenue funding but since 2011 till now we’ve not completed the project. Can you imagine what has happened to the structural integrity of the buildings that were begun in 2011? Do you think they are as strong today as they were when we began putting mortar and blocks way back then?
‘”If you go there, the roads that lead to the school are now being done, contractors abandoned sites, even generators that were to provide power to the school has been left at the mercy of the weather without any chance to be recovered,” he stated.
Speaking at this year’s zonal press briefing on the 2023 annual report of the committee, Mr. Dwamena recommended that the government establish a long-term development goal that will focus on one priority area and ensure that it has been well developed before considering other priority areas.
“PIAC wants to see this project receiving adequate attention from government especially when 297 million Ghana cedis of petroleum revenue was not utilized in 2023.
PIAC calls on government to give due attention to this project to complete it once and for all so that the school will begin academic work and the youths will get to attend school to acquire usable skills that will bring development to our country.”
He called on all media platforms and stakeholders to add their voices on the delay in the development of the Anomabo Fisheries College which can be of great benefit to the region and the country at large.
Source: Angelina Riley Hayford/ATLFMNEWS
