It has emerged that Procurement processes at the Ghana Water Company Limited under the Afenyo-Markin led board, have o mm several occasions been breached with impunity.
The situation has caused the State huge sums of money which could have been saved whilst the company procured Transport Pump, Control Panel and additional Items for Takoradi Pump House at Inchaban Headworks.
The GWCL has ignored an Invoice presented to it when the companby was seeking a contract for the Supply and Installation of Transport Pump, Control Panel and Additional Items for Takoradi Pump House at Inchaban Headworks at a cool price but went for Intermec Gh. Limited whose contract sum was considered to be too exorbitant.
Www.myafricatoday.com has chanced upon documents revealing that the contract was awarded to Intermerc (Gh) Ltd. in 2017, at a total contract sum of GHS 14,801,971.50, for the Supply and Installation of Transport Pump, Control Panel and Additional Items for Takoradi Pump House at Inchaban Headworks.
Meanwhile, a price invoice from Sunbabsco Ltd., for the supply and installation of Transport Pump, Control Panel and Additional Items for Takoradi Pump House at Inchaban Head works, the same items for which Intermerc was given that contract, at GHS 14,801,971.50).
Interestingly, all the items which Intermec Gh. Ltd. Procured and installed could have been procured at GHS 2,240,505.00; a colossal difference of GHS 112,561,466.5.
Allegations are that the Member of Parliament for Awutu, Hon Alexander Afenyo-Markin in October 2017, soon after his appointment as the Board Chairman of GWCL was given a Toyota Land Cruiser, Four Wheel Drive by Intermec Gh. Limited as gift.
This car gift was believed to have informed the decision to award the said contract to the Company even when another company was ready to execute same services at a much cheaper cost.
Many people are beginning to question the motive behind the gift to Afenyo-Markin, GWCL Board Chairman.
It is also believed that Value for money, was thrown to the dogs by the Afenyo-Markin led Board at GWCL, as it amounted to causing financial loss to the State.
P. KAY
