The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has disclosed the number of E-Blocks constructed under the erstwhile, Mahama-led government.

This follows indications by the National Communications Officer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress Sammy Gyamfi that 50 E-Blocks were constructed by 2016.

A statement issued by GETFund, made reference to a Facebook publication by the National Communications Officer of the NDC, on his wall, Monday, 2 October 2022, where he had claimed the erstwhile Mahama government “contracted one hundred and twenty-four (124) and completed about fifty (50) E-blocks between 2014 and 2016.”

According to the GETFUND, ordinarily, it would not have responded “to such typical debates within the political communications sphere.”

It noted, however, that “for the purposes of public records and research interests, it is incumbent on the Managers of the entity that funded the projects to set the records straight on this very important national subject matter.”

It revealed that: “From 2014-2016, the Government of Ghana awarded hundred and one (101) contracts on E-Blocks on the accounts of GETFund.

“Within the same period, the World Bank, via its Secondary Education Improvement Projects (SEIP) financing agreement with the Ministry of Education, also awarded twenty-three (23) E-Block projects.”

It continued that: “GETFund payments protocols to contractors on works done and certified by Consultants indicate each stage of project completion and the subsequent works to be carried out.

“All the projects were results based oriented. That is the project is subdivided into stages of completion.”

It stressed that: “By the end of 2016, twenty-two (22) of the E-blocks being funded by GETFund were completed. 

“Within the same period, seven (7) of the World Bank Funded E-Blocks were completed. This brings the total completed E-Blocks by the end of the year 2016 to twenty-nine (29)”.

While by the end of 2020, “Thirty (30) additional E-Blocks had been completed,” with 14, funded by GETFund and 16 by the World Bank.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education reviewed and terminated 27 of the 101, bringing the current number of outstanding E-Blocks, to 38 at various stages of completion.