The state has different agencies and all of the agencies have needs. They( the agencies) choose to prioritize those needs according to different levels of importance.
If the Ghana airport company which is the state agency responsible for constructing this edifice to provide convenience for their operations as far as Hajj is concerned, you can’t fault them for it.
The airport knows what benefit they derive from the annual pilgrimage and have thus decided to embark on this project to improve on their service.
The project as we all could clearly see from the pictures and videos on the day of the sod cutting doesn’t look like it started today.
Hassan Tampuli, a former deputy transport minister under the erstwhile administration came out to even state clearly that Mahama was cutting sod for a project which had already long started so clearly it’s not a new project.
The project in question is being done as a public-private partnership through a land-swap agreement. Meaning the state is only giving out a piece of land to the promoters of the project while they in turn put up the project for the state. In simple terms, see it as a barter trade. How does the state lose in this case?
How on earth do you compare this to a national cathedral that had its construction shrouded in a lot of lies, thievery and corruption?
How on earth do you compare this to a national cathedral that’s ended up as a $58 million pit?
I don’t think Ghanaians had an issue necessarily with the national cathedral. Our concern was the approach and lies that followed it. Have you seen the level of transparency here with the Hajj village? That’s all Ghanaians want.
Yes we have not solved schools under trees or our electricity issues but as I said, the different agencies have different task to perform and they’re less than 60 days in office so cut the government some slack!
