[ 2016-12-05 ]

Mahama’s Aide in $1.84m dubious sole-sourced contract
Barely a few days after the exposure of President
Mahama’s attempt to bribe the NPP’s Northern
Region Chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu, it has
emerged that Malin Investment Limited, the firm
owned and run by the President’s Special
Assistant and his mother who happens to be a
relative of the President, and which was used as
the conduit for transferring the bribery vehicle
to Bugri Naabu, is the beneficiary of several
projects running at several millions of dollars.

All of them were awarded on sole-sourced basis,
with the latest contract valued at US$1.84 million
(GHS7.344 million).

Malin, which is at the centre of the Presidential
bribery allegation, was, as recent as March last
year, awarded, on sole-contract basis, a 5Km road
construction contract by the Public Procurement
Agency valued at US$1.84 Million (GH¢7.344
Million).

The project, which was expected to have been
completed by March of this year, 2016, is still
hanging though payments have been made to Malin.

Officials of the Public Procurement Agency are
tight-lipped over the circumstances under which
Malin Investment Limited was awarded this project
on a sole-source basis, as well as on the other
projects of which they are beneficiaries.

However, a source indicated that every project
awarded by the agency had been done on direct
orders from Ibrahim Mahama or operatives from the
Flagstaff House.

The sole-sourcing provision of the Public
Procurement Act, which was supposed to be an
exception, has become the norm under the
Mahama-led NDC government, and has been the basis
upon which all the major fraudulent and corrupt
deals have been awarded, including the Smartty’s
bus branding scandal, the AMERI and KARPOWER
deals, among others.

Source - The New Statesman

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