The Majority Caucus in Parliament has called for full scale investigation and forensic audit into the activities of the Bulk Oil Storage Transportation (BOST) from 2009.
It said the press conference by the Minority was to throw dust into the eyes of the public and to cover-up the massive rot at BOST which occurred under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Administration and Mr Kwame Awuah Darko, the former Chief Executive Officer.
Mr Emmanuel Akwasi Gyamfi, the Chairman of the Energy Committee, said this at a press conference organised by the Majority New Patriotic Party (NPP) in reaction to the Minority’s conference on the recent five million litres of contaminated fuel at BOST.
The Minority NDC on Tuesday organised a press conference and accused Mr Alfred Obeng Boateng, the Chief Executive of BOST, to have, among other things, done business with two unlicensed companies of MOVENIINA and ZUPP Oil.
The Minority said the five million litres of contaminated fuel should have been processed to restore it to good use instead of selling it off.
They also accused him of causing financial loss to the state which they estimated at GHC14.2 million.
Mr Gyamfi also refuted the Minority’s allegation that MOVENIINA bought the product at GHC1.00 and sold at GHC1.30 to ZUPP Oil adding; “MOVENIINA indeed bought the contaminated product at GHC1.30 and then sold at GHC1.32 and made a marginal profit of GHC100,000”.
He said between 2014 and 2016 when the contamination of fuel products escalated, the average price that the product was sold was 70 pesewas per litre as the price ranged from 50 pesewas to 90 pesewas.
Mr Gyamfi said the sales price of the recent contaminated product at GHC1.30 was 86 per cent higher than what was obtained in the past and the highest value the nation had ever earned. BOST sells its good-spec at a price of GHC1.75 per litre.
Mr Gyamfi also debunked the Minority’s claim that under no circumstance should BOST experience such levels of contamination as being witnessed.
He said under the NDC similar contaminations occurred in 2014, 2015 and 2016 and the quantities involved were 4.6 million litres, 9.9 million litres and 12 million litres respectively.
He said the Minority’s allegation that the contamination had to do with the inefficiencies and negligence of Mr Boateng was not true because the five million litre was detected on January 18, 2017 when Mr Awuah Darko was still the Chief Executive of BOST.
Mr Gyamfi said on July 22, 2014 BOST, under Mr Awuah Darko, engaged Messrs Merson Capital Limited as financial consultant on its projects with the responsibility for financial evaluation and assisting in negotiating with financiers.
He said for this assistance Merson Capital was to be paid $50,000 per month for 36 months and if through its instrumentality any financier came on board Merson Capital was entitled to one percent of the total capital raised.
Mr Gyamfi said under Mr Awuah Darko, BOST rented a property at Airport Residential Area and for more than two years after BOST had vacated the premises they kept the key and kept paying rent amounting to $310,000 in June 2016.
He said BOST engaged Messrs ROLIDER Limited for a turnkey design, build and finance for their headquarters building at a cost of $39 million exclusive of VAT.
According to experts the headquarters could have been built at a cost of $19 million saving the nation $20 million of the taxpayer’s money.
He said since 2015 BOST, under guise of Security Transfer, had transferred unexplained amounts of between GHC2.5 million to GHC3.5 million on bi-monthly basis to the Office of the then President and the then Chief of Staff, the last amount being GHC three million which was transferred on January 3, 2017.
Source: GNA
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NPP, please do not mention all these things and allow the perpetrators to go freely. Make sure the law deals with them to retrieve all these monies where possible. Ghanaians, these are very bad examples that no future leader should emulate. It is good to be rich but do not be rich at the expense of the public purse. We must not forget that creating fair condition for everyone to get something little is better than few ones grabbing everything. That money will not last for your next generation. Sika wo ntaban.
His father owned Vanguard Assurance Company. The General Business Dept is being managed by Daniel Awuah-Darko. The Life Dept is being managed by Harold Awuah Darko. Citi Investment and one other company belonged to the father as well, now late. I dont know why he went into politics to humiliate himself. Now he is being cited for corruption scandal. LET THE LAW TAKE ITS OWN COURSE!!
Npp listen to mr kusi boafo the man in Kumasi he said the ndc are still in power they have their men in all the big government institutions so if you don't clear them from the way you will find it very difficult to govern, the man is very wise and is true they will cause the problem and turn around to blame the npp you see this case, who caused the problem theNDC so first arrest the former workers in charge of the oil and question them is their answer s are not correct jail them period
We voted for all this rot to be cleaned!