News:
June 19, 2018
Member of Parliament for Adaklu, Governors Kwame Agbodza is calling on President Akufo-Addo’s government to ensure that independent audit body does value for money audit on all government projects.
According to Adaklu legislator, he is not calling on Crown Agent to be the sole source for conducting value for money.
He made this remarks in an interview, in the wake of the National Identification Authority’s (NIA) one billion four hundred thousand dollars project to capture Ghanaians with a National ID, which the Minority has boycotted.
Mr. Governors Kwame Agbodza further revealed that in the NIA exercise, government appointed its own to do value for money, “when you have a bad mind and you want to hid evidence and avoid transparency, you go the way the NIA is doing”, he lamented.
Government can develop a project send it to Public Procurement Authority (PPA), a government appointee, which would be the one to determine value for money, “we believe this is wrong value for money should be carried out by an independent organization” he said.
“If I get to Adaklu my constituency, I get a text message from a network in Togo call move it then says, welcome to Togo now I am being told to produce my digital address, I cannot generate my digital address from home in Adaklu because we do not have telephone connectivity”.
This government is pulling through a project that can land this country in chaos, we are saying they must step back, this NIA exercise must cover all Ghanaians, he said.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com