{"id":13167,"date":"2025-09-16T17:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13167"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:11:11","slug":"big-push-project-not-for-wheelbarrow-contractors-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13167","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big Push Project not for wheelbarrow contractors\u2019 \u2013 Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"

President John Dramani Mahama has made it clear that the newly launched Big Push infrastructure programme is strictly for qualified and capable contractors, not small-scale or unqualified operators.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the official launch of the programme at Afienya in Accra on Tuesday, September 16, the President said he had received requests from individuals he described as \u201cwheelbarrow contractors\u201d seeking to benefit from the initiative.<\/p>\n

However, he emphasised that the Big Push is aimed at fast-tracking major national infrastructure and cannot be compromised.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a few wheelbarrow contractors who have come to me saying, \u2018Oh, I hear they are distributing projects under the Big Push. I want one.\u2019 I say, \u2018My friend, this is not for wheelbarrow contractors.\u2019 You are my friend, but I won\u2019t give it to you because it is not meant for wheelbarrow contractors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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President Mahama explained that the government has selected experienced local and foreign contractors who are already handling active projects.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Some of these projects were awarded before his administration took office, and rather than terminate them, they have been repackaged under the Big Push to ensure faster completion.<\/p>\n

The Big Push programme is a major government initiative aimed at accelerating infrastructure development across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President John Dramani Mahama has made it clear that the newly launched Big Push infrastructure programme is strictly for qualified and capable contractors, not small-scale or unqualified operators. Speaking at the official launch of the programme at Afienya in Accra on Tuesday, September 16, the President said he had received requests from individuals he described […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3916],"tags":[1256,4062],"class_list":["post-13167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-infrastructure","tag-mahama","tag-pig-push"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13171,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions\/13171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}