The Minority in Parliament has rejected government’s proposal to resort to restrictive tendering in selecting a private partner for the management of the power sector in the country .
“Whilst recognising the prerogative of the MCC in the determination of a particular procurement method in the selection of a PSP, in view of the limited time (approximately two years) until the expiration of the Compact II Program, Ghana hereby recommends the adoption by the MCC/MiDA of a restricted tender process to replace PDS.
“This restricted tender process shall be undertaken timeously by fast-tracking some of the processes without compromising the integrity and transparency of the procurement processes,” a government statement announcing the cancelation of the PDS deal said.
Reacting to the government position, former deputy power minister said:”even when we had enough time to do the right thing, look at the mess this government created by themselves? We don’t think restricted tender is the way to go, the interest of Ghana must be considered first at all time.
“This government decided to circumvent a good process with this illegality, inappropriate, and fraud by themselves”.
Government announced the cancellation of the PDS deal on Saturday evening.
“On the strength of all the information gathered about the purported Demand Guarantees provided by PDS as security for the transfer, the Government of Ghana is of the firm opinion that there is no valid Payment Security. Al Koot has clearly denounced and repudiated the instruments and expressed a clear intention not to be bound by any present or future obligation arising out of same. It is quite apparent that the alleged signatory of the purported Demand Guarantees, Yahaya Al Nouri, was not duly authorised by Al Koot to execute same according to the company’s Delegation of Authority instrument. The product was also not one of the company’s product lines.
“It would be illusory for Ghana or any of the parties to the LAA and BSA to consider that a valid and enforceable Payment Security was furnished by PDS in fulfilment of an essential Condition Precedent for the Transfer to PDS. In direct response to an observation in the FTI Final Report about the possibility of Ghana prevailing in a law suit against Al Koot, we say that the people of Ghana would consider it highly irresponsible on the part of government to act on the remote possibility that a Qatari court may find that there was a valid guarantee in place when Al Koot has unequivocally repudiated same as not its act. In any event, the Demand Guarantees are governed by the laws of Ghana, and not Qatar. Further, Qatar does not subscribe to Common Law for the doctrine of judicial precedent to be applicable,” the statement further said.
Source: Starrfmonline.com
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Ndc bring your policies,programs and visions and stop this pettiness which is mot helping you aden na mo'agyimi saaa ? you see how you wasting time on unnecessary things and forgetting the main thing to win elections. Ghanaians are very discerning and what you doing will never change their minds to vote fir you. What do they gain from this whole talk of PDS when their lights are on 24/7 something they never enjoyed during ndc time, and do you think they are very much interested in your PDS saga than a good policy? if the government cancel the deal Ghanaians will take thank and brand the government as a listening government than your st*upidity ! ots ridiculous this set of ndc mps comprise of rascals who can't think and they taking serious matters concerning the state as SRC governing board! ndc members of parliament during president Kuffuor's time were pragmatic and more serious than these Prof. Mills students. The last mistake the Ghanaian people should never make is voting freshmen from the universities to parliament they have no idea of what they do there, they play as if the parliament is SRC meeting. Ndc is the problem in Ghana and I'm happy the government doesn't give a fu-ck to their frustration and desperation. 2020 each party is going to sell their policies and visions and the work that each did not long talk and obstructions. Ndc nation wreckers they only think of themselves not the Ghanaian people! they only think of how to get power but not how to make the people happy! they think of create loo00*00t and share but not the development of Ghana! only idi*ots will believe and vote for them!2020 Ghanaians will display their thinking cap to the whole world ! Ndc is not good for Ghana!