{"id":420187,"date":"2017-09-20T01:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T01:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/sports-ministry-to-face-court-over-525000-debt\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T01:30:30","slug":"sports-ministry-to-face-court-over-525000-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/sports-ministry-to-face-court-over-525000-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Ministry to face court over $525,000 debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Tuesday, 19 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>sportsobama.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-19<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/80330351.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sports Ministry 1\" title=\"Sports Ministry 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Hon. Pius Hadzide(left), Hon. Isaac Asiamah(middle), and Lawyer Kwaku Ayiah(right)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1505871030_641_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RICS Consult, Rex Danquah, has vowed to sue the Sports Ministry following the latter\u2019s inability to pay a $525,000 consultancy fee.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Danquah\u2019s outfit was consulted for Ghana\u2019s bid for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. The Sports Ministry then agreed to pay him an amount of $525,000.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ghana failed to win the bid for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Auditor General\u2019s report, there was no official contract signed between the sports ministry and Rics consult though he was given an initial amount of 125,000 dollars to put the bid together.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Minister, Isaac Asiamah told the Public Accounts Committee that his office will not pay the supposed consultancy fee of $525,000 to RICS Consult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince there is no existing contract between the Ministry and RICS Consult which my accountant has testified, then there is no way we are going to pay the said amount. For all we know we are have already settled $125,000 and that is all we are going to pay,\u201d Asiamah told the committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Danquah taking his turn at the Public Accounts Committee, Tuesday said his services were engaged by the ministry and he believes the position by the ministry is a subject for the law court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe delivered on what we were expected to do,\u201d Mr. Danquah said, adding \u201cwe had a meeting with the then Chief Director and it was agreed that my company should discount the debt because we did not win the bid and we discounted the debt and minutes of that meeting is available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo for me\u2026to be told that there was no contract when the people themselves admit and accepted that the spirit of the work was done because all these things we used money to do it\u2026I think it\u2019s a subject for the court,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 2 updated by: 2 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Tuesday, 19 September 2017 Source: sportsobama.com 2017-09-19 Hon. Pius Hadzide(left), Hon. Isaac Asiamah(middle), and Lawyer Kwaku Ayiah(right) &#13; Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RICS Consult, Rex Danquah, has vowed to sue the Sports Ministry following the latter\u2019s inability to pay a $525,000 consultancy fee. 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