[ 2016-12-05 ]

NDC in final create, loot and depart
Documents available to the Daily Statesman
indicate that the Mahama-led National Democratic
Congress government is engaged in a last minute
unusual evil plan of naked looting of the national
coffers, ostensibly to further its vote buying
agenda.

The paper can report that the governing NDC,
knowing its time is up, has rushed to the Public
Procurement Authority with several questionable
sole sourcing deals for approval, valued at nearly
GHC2 billion, including road contracts and
contracts for supply of Cocobod insecticides.

It is the pursuit of this ‘create, loot and
depart’ agenda that has led to the current
situation whereby the Microfinance and Small Loans
Centre (MASLOC), which was established to reduce
poverty and create wealth, has now been turned
into an avenue for obvious stealing from the
national coffers.

Led by its Chief Executive Officer, Sedina
Tamakloe Attionu, MASLOC has spent a whopping
GHC10 million on the acquisition of 1,000 motor
tricycles, ostensibly for distribution to NDC foot
soldiers to motivate them to join the governing
party’s desperate effort to save President
Mahama from defeat in Wednesday’s elections.

This means each of the tricycles is costing the
nation GHC10, 000. But industry players put the
actual price of one tricycle at GHC5,000, which
means the contract has been inflated by 50%, with
the Mahama government virtually stealing GH5
million from the nation through this deal.

The firms that were selected for the sole-sourced
contract, awarded just last week, are CRISJOE
COMPANY LIMITED, SPELL TRUST LIMITED AND IEL
LOGISTICS.

“The Centre is by this application seeking the
approval…to apply the restricted tendering
method to procure specialized motorized
tricycles,” a letter from the MASLOC Chief
Executive Officer to the Public Procurement
Authority states in part.

It is clear that Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, the
MASLOC CEO who is known for her social media
attacks on the NPP flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo, than working for Ghana, and even when
she chooses to work, does nothing but engages only
in ‘creating and looting’ to satisfy her
paymasters.

Public Policy Research Centre, Danquah Institute,
in a recent report, revealed that Ghana had lost
US$1.93 billion in sole-sourced contracts since
2010.

According to the report, an estimated 65% savings
could have been made if those deals were subjected
to competitive tendering and would have saved the
country a whopping GH¢7.8 million.

Source - The New Statesman

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