But the problem is, under the Korle Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project, a new sea out fall is to be constructed for the discharge of waste water entering the lagoon into the sea. This new out fall could certainly take care of the small amount of sewage now being treated at the Accra waste project site and a whopping 20 million could have been saved. It is due to serious lack of coordination that two parallel projects of this nature could ever be undertaken in the same country and at about the same time. It is certainly unhealthy for any schism to exist between these two ministries to the extent that they could not even compare notes to prevent this wasteful duplication. Note, the GWSC which undertook the Accra waste project jointly with AMA and the Ministry of Local Government is under the Ministry of Works and Housing which is also responsible for the Korle Lagoon project.
Somebody needs to act and act quickly.
With the absence of comprehensive planning in the country for several decades, indiscipline and adhocism have taken over the implementation of several development programmes and a lot of monies are just going down the drain together with the waste water. Somebody must invite the technical men in these two ministries together with the following consultants to throw light on the existence of these two projects, one of which, the Accra waste project, looks so superfluous. Conterra Consultants and Taywood design consultants for Accra waste project and 2. IMDC Consultants for the Korle Lagoon Project. I am sure there are several such parallel projects involving wasteful expenditure in the pipeline and unless action is taken promptly, some of these projects might slip through the porous system we are running at considerable cost to the nation.