$993 Million multipurpose Pwalugu dam to be completed by March 2021
by MyNewsGHThe Pwalugu multipurpose dam to be constructed in Pwalugu in the Talensi District of the Upper East region will cost an amount $993 million.
The project which is expected to be completed by March 2021 will be entirely funded by the Government of Ghana.
Addressing a durbar of chiefs and people of the Upper East and North East region of Ghana in Pwalugu and to cut sod for the project to begin, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said government is committed to starting and finishing the project as scheduled.
“As we further indicated to our commitment to the realisation of this project, the total cost of the project amounting to some $993 million nearly a billion dollars to be borne entirely by government”, he said.
According to the President, the Chinese firm Sinohydro, a subsidiary of PowerChina will build the project under the engineering procurement construction contract which will be executed in fifteen (months).
He further assured that unlike the Akosombo and Bui Dams which did not benefit from an irrigation component though it was planned, the Pwalugu multipurpose dam will be different with the construction of an irrigation facility in addition to the electricity production component.
Source:MyNewsGh.com/Stephen Zoure/2019