The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has alleged that the government awarded two juicy cocoa road projects to Resource Access Limited, a company owned by the Vice President’s brother, in the year 2020.
According to him, this 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.
They are the upgrading of Assin Akropong – Odomasi – Asibrem(22.18km) road and the Upgrading of Kyibosohasowodze bungalow feeder road (14.50km).
Mr Gyamfi noted that the upgrading of Assin Akropong – Odomasi – Asibrem road was at a contract value of GH₵54,263,718.64 and 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 claimed.
He argued 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.”’
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