President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has been warned by someone he describes as a highly placed source within the Ministry of Interior to be on his guard and watch his movements due to his comments on the controversial $89.4 million Kelni GVG deal.
“What am gathering concerning your utterances on the [GVG] matter is not palatable. Just be on your guard and watch your movements and surroundings. Just came in from a highly placed source from the Ministry of Interior. Well, well, well. We are by this notice going international then and put all our friends local and international on notice. The matter continues unabated.” Mr. Cudjoe posted on his Facebook page Saturday.
Kelni GVG, a Haitian originated company, was awarded a contract by the government for design, development and implementation of a common platform for traffic monitoring, revenue assurance, and mobile money monitoring and fraud management—a service already being rendered by Afriwave and Subah Info Solution.
IMANI has constantly questioned the rationale behind the new contract with Kelni GVG, describing it as wasteful and aimed at milking the public purse.
“Indeed, there has been no such report of underperformance by the stakeholders that contracted Subah.
“The issue then is why did the Ministry of Communications go ahead and sign a new contract under the name of a common monitoring platform for a service that is already being rendered under an existing contract by a fellow government agency?” President of IMANI Africa Franklin Cujdoe stated on Morning Starr on May 17, 2018, calling for the immediate cancellation of the contract.
Although the government insists the deal saves the country $1.1 million a month, Mr Cudjoe wonders why the state has been paying the firm $1.5 million per month since January for “no work done”.
To Mr Cudjoe and Imani, the deal is “needless” and a rip-off.
The Kelni GVG contract upon its signing stipulates that a payment of $1,491,225 be paid monthly for a 5-year period, amounting to a total of USD 89,473,500.
Per the terms of the contract, which was signed in December 2017, the monthly payments are supposed to begin no later than 30 days after the contract was signed.
This, by inference, means that the state through the Ministry of Communications owes at least $5.96 million as of May this year even though the company is yet to officially begin work.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com
