The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is accusing Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of awarding two juicy cocoa road projects to the Vice President’s brother’s company, Resource Access Limited, in the year 2020.
The party disclosed that the project was awarded to Resource Access Limited through sole-soucing and not through a competitive bidding process at an inflated cumulative cost of GH₵83 million.
Addressing journalists at the NDC’s ‘Moment of Truth Series’, Communications Officer of the party Sammy Gyamfi said the contracts are for the upgrading of the Assin Akropong-Odomasi-Asibrem (22.18 km) road and the upgrading of the Kyibosohasowodze bungalow feeder road (14.50 km).
He said that the upgrading of the Assin Akropong-Odomasi-Asibrem road had a contract value of GH₵54,263,718.64, with the latter valued at GH₵29,468,546.54.
“Apart from the overpriced Sunyani Airport Phase One rehabilitation project, two juicy cocoa road projects were also awarded to Bawumia’s brother’s company, Resource Access Limited through sole-sourcing at an inflated cumulative cost of GH₵83 million in the year 2020,” he alleged.
Sammy Gyamfi added that the single-sourced cocoa road projects were found by the Auditor-General to be “overpriced and awarded in breach of the Public Procurement Law, thus, causing the nation huge financial losses.”
“Indeed, paragraph 65 of a Performance Audit Report by the Auditor-General on the Construction of Cocoa Roads revealed that; “COCOBOD 4 NATIONAL SECRETARIAT P.O BOX AN 5825 ACCRA-NORTH, GHANA did not rigorously analyse its procurement options for value for money but sought approval from PPA for single sourcing and restricted tendering, thus procuring contracts which were up to three times more expensive than they could have obtained through competitive tendering.”’
Source: rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
