The Member of Parliament for Assin Central and businessman, Mr Kennedy Agyapong is not happy with how the National Identification Authority was handling his application for consideration in the printing of national identity cards.
He has consequently expressed his anger over the decision to overlook his application for the contract and rather go for another one from a rival company.
To him, his offer for the contract was more than 50 per cent cost effective than what was being offered by the rival company and does not understand why the new acting Executive Secretary, Professor Ken Attafuah was overlooking him.
Expressing his anger and imputing fraud in the deal on Oman FM’s “Boiling Point” programme on Tuesday night, Mr Agyapong said Prof Attafuah has surrounded himself with NDC functionaries who were advising him that he [Ken] was going to sub-contract to some Indians should he get the nod and that, they should rather go for the other deal, which was wholly Ghanaian.
Interspersing his argument with insults on the radio programme, he said on the day he brought the Indians to the technical meeting, apart from Professor Attafuah and one Charles Boakye, all other persons at the meeting were NDC functionaries.
He accused Mr Amadu Sulley, a deputy chairman of the Electoral Commission who was part of the technical committee of spearheading the decision to overlook his [Ken] application.
Mr Agyapong who was fuming with anger and was determined to unleash more vituperative words insisting that he was not scared of anyone and would speak his mind was halted by the host of the programme, Wofa Kwame Kwakye.
Source: Daily Graphic
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It is important to note that the Ghanaian company is the foremost ID card company in Ghana and have been around for several years. Currently they are registering the foreigners in Ghana. Foreigners are given cards the same day they register. In Ghanaian it looks like the easiest way to destroy a competitor is to tag him to a rival political party. Ken, please concentrate on your Radio/TV stations and let competent Ghanaians do what they are good at. Cost is NOT the ONLY CRITERIA for winning a contract. Technical Specs is foremost, just in case you have forgotten.
THE HOST OF BOILING POINT ON OMANFM IS KWABENA KWAKYE AND NOT KWAME KWAKYE. AND SOME FACTS ARE TWISTED HERE. I LISTENED TO THE PROGRAM
Please this is just one side of the story, we need to hear from Prof Ken Attaffuah of his side of the story for a better analysis. Lets all wait for that, we want value for money.
Now Ken will have upper hand because his children mother is going to be minister of state in charge of procurement. Hon. Adjoa Safo. Thanks be to God.
Believed me ken and his group will have done a perfect job if he was giving chance.
I hope the Ghanaian contractor have the cheapest cos as compared to the foreign contractor cos now wwe are looking at cost cutting to save the nation, if 2companies will do the same job at different prices then lets go for the lowest
Whoever spoke for the Over 200 trainee nurses picket at Health Ministry; demanding lift on employment ban on Peace 12:00 News is the most F0OOLISH individual to lead any group. If this guy is a trained nurse then the Government should be careful in posting them. i think they need to be re-train. How could you speak so loosely without any application of common sense? You don't hit the top of the head if your hand is in someone's mouth. Now you have insulted & spoken ill about this new Health Minister who is not even spend 100 days at the office, what next? You are not civilised at all. How could you attack a whole minister that bad? What did he do wrong? This is an insult on the president who appointed him, the Parliament who vetted him etc. I'm sure the whole Ghana heard you and know the sort of people or person you are. I don't think that person has parents at home. An iddiottt.
hmmm NPP, u insulted MAHAMA as giving contracts to family n friends and now look at wat we r hearing. hypocrites. Is this wat we voted for.
Why should NIA give a contract to a Ghanaian company for $176m when an Indian company will do same contract for $80m. The Ghanaian company is NDC whilst the Indian company is NPP fronted by Ken Agyepong. Interesting times are here. NIA beware. Save Ghana, value for money.
Do they care about GHANA? 21 st century no political party should throw dust in the eyes of Ghanaians. After all they begged, screamed,wept for votes. They should be reminded of that each time they want to PUSH over Ghanaians.