Energy Minister, John Jinapor recently addressed the men of the press and while speaking, he revealed that the ECG awarded 142 contracts under the NPP government but zero went to the board for approval.
“In his Words”
“In 2022, If you look at their procurement, single source was 33, board approval was zero, what it means was that the whole of 2022, and you can check from page 12, you will see the table. The table explained the excessive use of procurement as opposed to more competitive methods, of the 142 contracts awarded, zero went to the board for approval, but when it goes to the board, they
have a nine member team that would evaluate it. Then in 2023, 703 contracts were awarded but only 21 went to the board, then 2024, 601 contracts were awarded, only 7 went to the board, 425 single source so you can clearly see that, that’s where the problem is coming from”.
“It’s the MD who awards the contract you know, they are two ways, you take the contract to the board for approval, before you even execute it, or you execute it based on the limit, and like I said, he has a limit of one million dollars so he can choose to sign 10 or 5 contracts everyday within that threshold, so by the end of the year you have a lot of contracts, but all these contracts will not go to the board”, John Jinapor said.
TV3 Ghana shared the video on their official instagram page today being Saturday the 29th day of March, 2025 and it stirred massive reactions from the general public. Click on the link below to watch the video.
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