Credible information, supported by documents, available to the Daily Statesman indicates that the Ghana Cocobod, under the watch of the embattled immediate past Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Opuni, dubiously dished out contracts to the tune of about $512 million during the transition period, without going through any competitive tendering.
The sole sourced contracts, according to available documents, were done at the blind side of the transition team, and against the advice of some senior technocrats at the Cocobod.
A substantial number of these contracts were also awarded on restricted tender basis, the documents further show.
These contracts, which were hastily awarded between December 3, 2016 and December 23, 2016, include about US$159 million, for the dollar contracts, and GHS 120 million, for the Ghana Cedis contracts.
Forty four of the contracts were awarded to various contractors, primarily in road sector, between October 3, 2016 to January 6, 2017.
Interestingly, majority of the road contracts were done on restricted tendering basis when the default position of the procurement act is competitive tendering.
A typical example was the contract for the rehabilitation of an 8.4 kilometre Sunyani Senior High School and Asana roads, in the Brong-Ahafo Region, at a cost of GH¢19,092,779 million awarded to Ousman Inusah Company on January 6, 2017.
A contract worth GH¢19,889,530.05 was also awarded to ERDMAC Company Limited, on the same January 6, for the surfacing of the Sankore-Kwabeng feeder road, also in the Brong-Afafo Region, where Stephen Opuni hails from.
The total contract sum for the restricted tendering is quite huge. The Cedi contracts was about GHS 1.138 billion whilst the US$ contracts was about $62.65 million
A computation of the sole sourced and the restricted tendering in a common currency (US$) comes to about US$ 512 million in just three months. Interestingly the only reason given for sole sourcing was that these items were of a “proprietary nature.”
Source: The New Statesman
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Time is money and what are the laws waiting for before jailing and discard all his assets and also those corrupt officials in line?
opuni is something else. he must face the laws of this land without fail. this say man called treated the german invester opferkuch to with kids gloves and is keeping millions of dollars belonging to cocobod. opuni's in action has resulted in the collapse of WAMCO, a viable cocoa processing company in Takoradi. opuni could best be described as an incompetent ceo with a wicked spirit, probably an occult.
God will punish all these wicked people who want to enrich themselves. NDC guys are very wicked and God will pay them back dearly.
WHY OPUNI WHY NDC ? THE CORRUPTION IS TOO MUCH .. YOU GUYS USED POWER TO STEAL OUR MONEY .. THIS IS NOT RIGHT .. ATTAH MILLS WILL CRY IN HIS GRAVE,, MAHAMA AND HIS GOVERNMENT HAS DISAPPOINT HIM ..OPUNI SHOULD GO TO JAIL
Aaaaaah!! Why do these public officials do this? There will be no rush to judgement but all the facts will be reviewed. The money must be retrieved. This is sheer wickedness.
Ghanaians don't need these publications.we only need actions. It seems things are being delayed. The delay is what is making NDC have a big mouth to be pouring out Vernon. They are wicked. They have milked that it has no more nutrients. Prosecutions must be fastrack to put things to rest. NDC has collapsed Ghana.
Opuni must be jailed because this ***barred word*** has to stop,this is very ridiculous and instead we condemning these lawless acts we are asking questions whether jailing him will bring the money back. He has to be jailed and in any where in the world he would have been jailed straight out.
hhhhhmmmmm. where is the sole Prosecutor starting his job.???? We are waiting to see the "guillotine" flying on the necks of the looters. DONT SPARE THEM AT ALL !!. Let the poor man on the street feel confident somebody is getting back monies which could have bettered his life.
what do you get from jailing Mr. Opuni? Would that bring back the money? Just Cancel the contracts and dispose his assets to offset the rest of the cost
I do remember Kennedy Agyapong saying this at Adom programme morning show....Ken tells the truth though when it comes to corruption and corrupt officials. That Opuni should be jailed...for misused of public funds.