The Minister of State responsible for Public Procurement, Ms Adwoa Sarfo, has directed that all queries emanating from government contracts should be referred to her office for legal advice.<\/p>\n
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This, the minister said, would prevent any \u201cunnecessary\u201d legal battle between government and contractors that could culminate in \u201cneedless and avoidable\u201d payment of judgement debts.<\/p>\n
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A statement signed and issued by the Minister last Monday observed with grave concern the recent media publications regarding the abrogation of government contracts by some MMDA\u2019s and MDAs.<\/p>\n
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The statement said although the minister had no doubt about the competence of heads of institutions to make a judgement on the appropriateness of a contract, she thought it was, important to seek legal and expert advice before the decision was taken to abrogate a contract.<\/p>\n
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Thus, she has, therefore, advised all heads of institutions within the MMDAs and MDAs to refer all such questionable contracts to her office for investigations, expert legal advice and recommendations.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThat move will prevent any unnecessary legal battles between the government and contractors which could spark needless and avoidable payment of judgement debts.\u201d she said in the statement.<\/p>\n
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This, the minister said, would prevent any \u201cunnecessary\u201d legal battle between government and contractors that could culminate in \u201cneedless and avoidable\u201d payment of judgement debts. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"\n
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