‘One Village, One Dam’: Government yet to improve on poorly constructed dams

Government has made no attempt to reconstruct or improve upon the quality of dams that were poorly constructed under the ‘One Village, One Dam’ [1V1D] initiative.

Neither has any budget allocations been made for further work to be done on the dams, most of which dried up during the dry season.

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana who recently went on a tour to inspect the dams in the Upper East Region, says farmers could not use the dams for any other purposes, except serving as source of drinking water for animals.

The NPP government introduced the ‘One Village, One Dam’ Initiative to construct dams in some villages in northern Ghana to support the farmers to do dry season farming.

However, when they were eventually constructed, the dams did not meet the expectations of Ghanaians as they were poorly constructed.

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana conducted research last year and found that the dams could not support dry season farming as initially intended by government.

Though government promised to get contractors back to site to improve on the dams, JoyNews correspondent, Albert Sore who was on the tour with PFAG reports that the situation remains the same, one year on.