6 Abandoned Projects in Ghana Which Are Just Unbelievable.
In many developing countries, unfinished infrastructure projects
are widespread. Because of its critical role in attaining social and economic development,
infrastructure is a top priority for governments, citizens, and funders alike. As a result,
seeing much-needed infrastructure development projects abandoned in the middle of construction
is both annoying and perplexing. Ghana is a lovely West African country with abundant
resources, as well as a peaceful country with beautiful structures. As you may be aware,
Ghana has an extraordinary visionary of completed and continuing projects,
but what the majority of people do not see in high view. It’s a sad reality that wonderful
projects and buildings are abandoned for whatever reasons. Approximately one-third of projects that
begin are never completed, accounting for nearly 20% of all local government capital expenditure.
This startling prevalence prompts the question: how serious is non-completion
compared to other dimensions of the political economy of public service delivery? While
precise figures are difficult to come by, this estimate of fiscal waste due to non-completion
is comparable to Olken’s (2007) estimate of resource loss due to corruption in
road construction (24 percent) and Finan and Mazzocco’s (2016) estimate of the percentage
of public expenditure that is misallocated due to politically motivated distortions (26 percent ).
Welcome to Africa Reloaded. Let’s look at this video and see some of these projects which
would have been a game changer for Ghana if they had been completed.
6. Ghana's Sky train Project. The project will not proceed due
to finance concerns, according to Minister of Railway Development John Peter Amewu,
who announced the news in a road interview. “It’s not possible right now.” I don’t think a sky train
will be built in the next 3–4 years. There will be no Sky train service in the country. “It’s
not conceivable,” he stated emphatically. “Rail construction takes a long time and requires a lot
of money. In terms of developing an asphaltic road, a kilometer of railway line costs
around four to five times as much as a kilometer of concrete infrastructure.” The goal of the
Skytrain project was to create a fully automated and highly efficient public transportation
system that would use air propulsion technology to power lightweight, high-capacity cars. The
project’s cost was anticipated to be $2.6 billion. The proposed network would consist of five routes,
four of which would be radial lines that would commence at a new terminus at the Kwame Nkrumah
Interchange and one looping around the city. According to the administration, there are
presently no plans to continue the project. 5. The HO Youth Center Project.
The site of a $2.4 million multi-purpose Youth Sports Centre project that began in March 2018 has
been left for cattle to graze on. Some members of the public come to the site on a regular basis to
pick fuel wood from the shrubbery behind the unfinished spectator stands and other structures.
Mr Benjamin Kpodo, the Member of Parliament for Ho Central, visited the project site to view
firsthand the project’s standstill position. Wikado Construction, a local contractor,
was in charge of the 10,000-seater project, which was set to be finished in February 2019 under the
National Youth Authority (NYA). A FIFA-standard football pitch, an eight-lane athletics track,
a tennis court, a basketball court, a handball court, a gymnasium, a counselling center,
a youth ICT center, an entrepreneurial center, and a restaurant were all expected to be included.
However, when approached, Mr Yao Semorde, the NYA’s Regional Director, declined to comment on
the facility’s state. The goal of the facility was to give the kids a place to work on their skills.
The location, however, is now home to discarded construction equipment, weeds, and raptors.
4. The Afari Military Hospital Worth $38 million.
At the abandoned Afari Military Hospital in the Ashanti Region, ultra-modern oxygen
cylinders and medical equipment worth over US$38 million are left to rust. The hospital
is a 500-bed facility that was supposed to open in December 2018, according to media sources. The
anticipation, however, was not satisfied. Dominic Nitiwul, the then-minister-designate for Defence,
informed the Appointments Committee in February 2021 that work on the main facility
was almost finished, in response to a question regarding the project’s delay. Captain Smart,
the host of Onua Maakye, disclosed that some of the equipment includes Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI) machines that will be used at the Children’s Hospital. Air conditioners, generators, pipes,
cable, window glasses, louvres, concrete mixing machines, burglar proofs, tiles, building stones,
and sand piles are only a few of the other items. Onua TV aired an exclusive footage that showed
medical equipment and devices on the premises of the hospital being battered by the elements.
3. The KNUST Teaching Hospital Project. Authorities at the Kwame Nkrumah University
of Science and Technology’s (KNUST) School of Veterinary Medicine have renewed their demands
for the government to assist in the completion of construction on the abandoned KNUST Veterinary
Teaching Hospital. Work on the project has been stalled for the previous five years,
with instructors lamenting how the situation is impacting the quality of academic work. The
school’s administrators believe that completing the abandoned KNUST Veterinary Teaching
Hospital project will turn it into a veterinary training powerhouse for not only Ghana, but all
of West Africa. “ The prototype for this structure can be found at the Onderstepoort University of
Veterinary Medicine in South Africa. If completed, this structure will be the first of its kind
in all of West Africa.” Prof. Benjamin Emikpe, Dean of KNUST’s School of Veterinary Medicine,
stated that this will be the largest structure ever among the 16 Veterinary schools in West
Africa. “The Ashanti Region’s location is intended to attract veterinary students from other West
African countries, including Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mali, Burkina Faso, and others,
demonstrating that we are capable of providing veterinary medicine education.” As a result,
he is pleading with the government to assist in the completion of the project as soon as possible.
2. Paloma Beach Resort. If finished, the Paloma Beach
Resort in Takoradi would have been a watershed moment for Ghana’s hospitality industry.
It was supposed to be finished in 32 months, but it’s been a white elephant ever since.
The beach house was supposed to bring in a lot of money in to the touristic sector and also generate
a lot of income for the country. Failure to complete the project has only generated to ruins.
1.The SAGLEMI Ghana Housing Project.
This abandoned building project is located in Prampram, Ghana, along the Afloa road in the
Ningo prampram area. This project began in 2012, ten years ago, and it is still unfinished. This
abandoned housing project is perhaps Ghana’s most well-known project. Since it was Ghana fume that
piloted into public outreach back in April 2021, when the public realized they had reached out of
an amazing initiative. This project was supposed to be a 5000 residential unit of over 1,500 flats
to ease the accommodation of deficit in Ghana. It sits on a three hundred acre land with one to
three bedroom flats meant for low-income earners, who are Ghanaian majority working force. This
project wasted $200 million of Ghanaians tax payers money. Even though it was
completed but never operationalized, the government abandoned it and left it routed.
As a tax payer, what we expect from the government are completed projects that
would boost the country's economy and als o bring development in the long run.
It is disheartening to see abandoned projects here and there which finally end as ruins due to lack
of funds or mis-appropriation and embezzlement. Haven’t seen these abandoned projects,
we are therefore compelled to pleed that something be done to savage the situation in order that
the country and the citizens in general benefits from them. Thanks for watching.
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