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The public has been urged to discard news making round that the Director General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Richard Anaamo, has undertaken dubious contracts estimated to have led to the country losing over GHC 5 billion.
The Daily Statesman newspaper reported that over the last four years, the Director General of GPHA has "impudently and arrogantly" awarded contracts through sole-sourcing to his cronies.
This, the newspaper claims was achieved through connivance with the Chief Executive Officer of Public Procurement Authority.
But Mr. Eric Arthur, a special aide to Mr. Richard Anaamo tells Okay FM that the Director General of GPHA has worked with the institution for more than 35 years and knows how dangerous it is to engage in activities that would bring the name of GPHA into disrepute.
“If the daily Statesman is reporting that activities under him (Anaamo) have led to debt, then it is a liar. The institution (GPHA) is a big one and anything done there is being monitored by all political activists. Aside this, there are both internal and external auditors ensuring that everything done is legit”, he said.
He continued that “all GPHA contracts are advertised in the papers” and dared the New Statesman to boldly state one contract that Mr. Richard Anaamo gave out through sole-sourcing.
About 400 workers, according to the paper have been employed to work at the new Maritime Hospital since Nana Akufo-Addo won the general elections of December 7, with their appointed letters also backdated.
But this claim was also refuted by Mr. Anaamo. Under the watch of Mr. Richard Anaamo, Eric Arthur believes the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has seen a positive development stressing that the Maritme Hospital has been established to help the nation.
He further stressed that it was also a lie that Mr. Richard Anaamo has used his authority to employ 400 people to work in the newly built hospital.
“All the lies are being peddled by certain disgruntled people and we know all those behind the news” he noted.
He ended by advising the public to desist from the act of disgracing “people who have worked harder by publishing their photos on frontpages and calling them thieves”.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/ email: [email protected]
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The only way the NPP can create jobs is to remove incumbents and replace them with their own.
MAHAMA APPOINTMENTS TO CHRAJ, NCCE, AUDITOR GENERAL AND OTHERS, AS WELL AS NEW CONTRACTS WHICH CAN BE DUBIOUS AND INFLATED CONFIRM HIS CORRUPT NATURE. HE IS DESPERATE TO COVER UP HIS CORRUPT DEEDS, FEARING THE NEW GOVERNMENT WOULD YIELD TO THE CALL OF GHANAIANS TO INVESTIGATE THE CORRUPTION. THE EXISTING CONDITIONN IS A VERY BAD PRACTICE IN GHANAIANS POLITICS AND WE SHOULD NOT SIT DOWN UNCONCERNED AND LEAVE THE MATTER IN THE HANDS OF ONLY POLITICIANS AND THE GOOD WILL OF A GOOD OUTGOING PRESIDENT. THERE SHOULD BE LAW IN GHANA EITHER BY AMENDMENT OR BILL TO RESTRICT AN BAD OUTGOING PRESIDENT AND GOVERNMENT TO SIGN ANY NEW CONTRACTS OR MAKE APPOINTMENTS AND RECRUITMENT AFTER ELECTIONS IF SUCH VACANCY OR NEED HAS EXISTED MORE THAN ONE MONTH BEFORE THE ELECTIONS. THE REASON IS THAT IF THE VACANCY OR THE NEED HAD EXISTED OVER ONE MONTH BEFORE THE ELECTIONS AND THE PRESIDENT, HIS GOVERNMENT AND THE NATION HAD COPED WITH IT THEN THE SAME PRESIDENT AND HIS GOVERNMENT AND THE NATION SHOULD BE ABLE TO COPE WITH THE SITUATION FOR THE REMAINING ONE MONTH BETWEEN THE ELECTIONS AND THE HANDOVER TO THE NEW GOVERNMENT.
***barred word*** bi ka woa na efri wo ntoma mo> To wit, if an ***barred word***(insect) is biting or stinging you, then it is from your own cloth you are wearing. Don't take this for a joke.
I ask myself.... how many of these comments on this platform about this DG, were written by one single individual using different names......?????? WHOEVER YOU ARE..... YOU CANNOT CHANGE SOMETHING THAT IS BLACK TO BECOME WHITE ..... TIME WILL SURELY TELL
So if this man bad and corrupt as it's been to forward, why has it not come up long time and all of sudden there is a change of government then people start talking like this. Let's stop the pull him down attitude in Ghana
I know him personally. He is corrupt to the core. Nana Addo should set up a committee of inquiry and we would provide proof
WALJANUS WALLDIMMER, PLEASE DONT FORGET TO TAKE YOUR TABLETS. IAM NOT READY TO TAKE YOU TO ANKAFUL AGAIN.
is Mr Eric Arthur an official aide or an unofficial aide to the DG
Is it true u paid the union to sack ur former DG so u cud be made the DG?
There is no smoke without fire. How much percentage are u taking? Am a party member but ddnt vote for NDC cos of u.Bring back the allowances u cancelled before u leave office. The official residence u gave to ur son and friends hope they've started parking out. GPHA money oga the chop am nyafunyafu!! Mr 6%