[ 2016-11-23 ]

NPP making baseless accusations – Zoomlion
The management of the Jospong Group of Companies,
the parent company of Zoomlion Ghana Ltd has
dismissed reports that government unlawfully paid
some monies to the company without binding
contracts.

According to the company, all the monies received
are legitimate and were paid through clean
transactions following work done since 2006.

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) at a
Press conference last week lashed out at the John
Dramani Mahama administration for paying GHS500
million to the company without any contractual
agreement with the state.

In sanctioning what it described as the illegal
payment made, the opposition NPP said the state
gave the go ahead for the use of the 10% of the
District Assembly Common Fund allocated to the
Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to make the
payment.

The Policy Advisor of the NPP, Mr Boakye Agyarko,
who addressed the news conference at the party’s
headquarters in Accra on Wednesday November, 16
said: “This amount is meant to pay for 45,000
workers who are actually on the payroll of the
various district assemblies. So, the assemblies
are responsible for paying the wages of the 45,000
and not the service provider. This act of
corruption is a matter for which Ghanaians must
demand and deserve answers.”

But the Head of Communication of the Jospong Group
of Companies, Mrs Sophia Lissah in an interview
with Accra-based Citi FM stated that the NPP
claims are baseless.

“When I see people making statements that they
don’t have facts to support; people making
statements that they know all they have is the
paper on the periphery, but the actual thing that
is going on, they do not have an idea and
they’re speaking about it, its heartbreaking.
This amount[over GHS480 million] is not from 2013.
we’ve said it’s an accrual. Accrual means that
some are being paid but not all. So over the
period it’s something that has accrued from back
in the days till now. It is not factually true
that because of a cancellation of a supposed
contract we’ve accrued monies that are being
paid us.

“Check with contractors in Ghana. This is
something every contractor suffers and that is why
most people go out of their way…So you don’t
just say because government is not paying me then
we’ll not do the work.”

Source - Kasapafm

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