The NDC’s presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama, has pledged that his future administration will perform a detailed audit of the Keta Port.
This review aims to evaluate the development progress under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and to establish a clear plan for the project’s next steps.
While addressing the media in Ho during his campaign tour of the Volta Region, Mahama stressed the importance of conducting a thorough needs assessment before considering the establishment of a new port between Tema Harbour and the Port of Lomé.
He cautioned against repeating the errors seen with the Boankra inland port project, emphasizing the need to ensure that the Keta Port does not end up as a “white elephant.”
“We will prioritise it and once I become president, one of the first things I will ask for is the feasibility study of the Keta Port and once we have seen it, we will let the public see it and based on that, we can take it from there.
“If there must be a port there, there must be a specialised port for something because we have Tema and we have Lomé because if we are having an intermediate port, is it going to handle the same cargo that Tema and Lomé are handling?
“Those are all things that we have to look at and determine how to move forward and so they should stop playing politics with it and let us see the feasibility study, the design of the port and move forward.”