A Deputy Minister of Communications, George Nenyi Andah has reiterated the fact that the Founding President of IMANI Africa Franklin Cudjoe is on the wrong path as far as discussions on the Ministry of Communications’ contract with Kelni GVG is concerned.
Franklin Cudjoe is calling for the abrogation of the $89.4million contract between the state and telecommunications company, Kelni GVG.
According to him, Subah Info Solution and Afriwave are already performing similar jobs for the Communication Ministry as a result; the contract is needless and is just a duplication of functions.
Reacting to this earlier on in the week, George Andah defused IMANI’s concern adding, no amount of pressure will compel the government to cancel the controversial contract.
reacting to the same issue during a panel discussion on JOY FM’s Newsfile programme Saturday, the deputy minister who also doubles as the Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya West Constituency said he suspects IMANI is being motivated.
“Either IMANI is misinformed or they have been motivated to do whatever they are doing…I would have expected that if they had any concerns, they should have engaged the ministry. People could be misinformed…IMANI is not God. There hasn’t been any request to meet with the ministry. They are misinformed; IMANI is misinformed,” he noted.
According to him, “we are 100 percent sure that this (contract) is in the interest of Ghana.”
Background
Kelni GVG, a Haitian originated company, has been 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.
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.
Meanwhile, Glo has already signed on according to George Andah.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com
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At least we can trust Cudjoe more than George because you led Occupy Ghana to put NDC on its toe only to have joined yourself to NPP. Today you do not see anything right with accountability. All the noise you made under occupy Ghana is just to create a position for yourself so you and Kudjoe, who is nearer to God? You are stea1ing in the name of God- are we at Church?
Since when did you know that imani is not God? now that it does not suit you ? or when NDC was in power. Oh Gh, then in 2020 they will make all noise for votes again.
BOB MARLEY YOUR BEST FRIEND COULD BE YOUR WAIST ENEMY. IMANI WELL DONE. AS FOR POLITICIANS THEY WOULD COME AND GO
Today IMANI is not God. Hmmmmm, after they have brought you to power. Wait for 2020.
must Franklin Cudjoe hide behind somebody before criticizing?
Mr president you have succeeded in putting Gh to sleep thank you,deals like this in addition will put Gh into perpetual coma.Wake up from your incompetent slumber.
So how does countries around us do this? Do they also pay this much for similar services? I can't think far o Mr. Andah, rather than saying that you will not abrogate the contract, you will do Ghanaians and your government a lot of good by coming out to tell us how different this contract is from the Subah and Afrowave contracts which you and the NPP vehemently opposed. Then you can begin to make sense. Otherwise, we treat is the same way we did Subah/Afrowave/NDC. what is good for the goose, is equally good for the gander
this is the kind of deals that dot ndc out. Nana Addo should be watching things like this. you can pay from your pocket. the people of Ghana we dont want our money for such shady stuff
OK. I have heard the arguments of Franklin and I see a lot of reason in it. Why do we need to monitor revenue at such a cost does the potential benefit from using this system merit such an investment? It doesn't look to me like something I will do if was running my own company. The problem I have with ghanaian leaders is that they don't think far. They always look for the easy solution. So when these foreign companies come up with some idea dat look ok they just buy into it. hmm
Mr deputy minister, after your arguments I am tempted to agree with you. Mr. Franklin first put it out that it is duplication of work. When his attention was drawn to the fact that subah's contract has been terminated, he went on to say kelni gvg is not an ict copmany. When he was given the proof that the company was registered as an ict company and had done some work for govt in 2010, he changed the goal post and now claims the deal is not value for money. From the sequence, I am sure if he is proven wrong, he would jump on to another site looking for a place to shift the post again. What is the motivation mr franklin, patriotism?