{"id":444355,"date":"2017-12-06T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/gyeeda-rot-cancel-zoomlion-contract-if-you-wish-afriyie-ankrah\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T17:40:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:40:59","slug":"gyeeda-rot-cancel-zoomlion-contract-if-you-wish-afriyie-ankrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/gyeeda-rot-cancel-zoomlion-contract-if-you-wish-afriyie-ankrah\/","title":{"rendered":"GYEEDA rot: Cancel Zoomlion contract if you wish \u2013 Afriyie Ankrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday,  6 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/37883396.295.jpg\" alt=\"Elvis 8\" title=\"Elvis 8\" width=\"295\" height=\"188\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, Former Youth and Sports Minister<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512582059_979_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah says it was impossible for him to resolve all the lapses in contracts under the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA) programme in the time that he was there.<\/p>\n<p>According to Afriyie Ankrah, he had started implementing some of the recommendations by the committee of inquiry set up to investigate irregularities in the operations at GYEEDA, now Youth Employment Agency (YEA), before he was removed from the Ministry and reassigned to the Flagstaff Staff in July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Afriyie Ankrah who was appointed to the Ministry in February 2013, by President John Mahama, on Wednesday stated on the Super Morning Show on Joy FM that he met a number of irregularities with the award of contracts to service providers and the non-existence of a database of the number of people employed under the agency.<\/p>\n<p>These led to the institution of a 5-member value for money fact-finding team which included three staff from the Attorney-General\u2019s Department as well as two independent persons to engage the various service providers, he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The former Minister said upon completion of its work, the committee recommended the disengagement of the services with some of the companies including rlg as well as three other service providers owned by the JOSPONG Group of Companies \u2013Zoomlion Ghana Limited, YESDEP and Better Ghana Services Management Limited.<\/p>\n<p>However, the management of Zoomlion insisted their contract with GYEEDA could not be terminated because it had been in spite of the fact that the contract had ended, compelled the committee to seek legal advice from the Attorney-General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The A-G then advised that the contract should be allowed to run till the end of 2015 with the reason being that it would have taken GYEEDA not less than three months to engage another service provider which time could have plunged the nation into a sanitation crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believed that the advice\u2026under those circumstances, I think it was fair,\u201d Afriyie Ankrah argued.<\/p>\n<p>But by the time that deadline elapsed, \u201cI was promoted to the Flagstaff House (Presidency),&#8221; he explained further, defending why he could not be held accountable for the failure by the previous administration to correct the ills in the operations at GYEEDA.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that: \u201cIt is not possible that I would have been able to solve all the problems of GYEEDA; we set up a board, we restructured, we did our best,\u201d urging the Nana Akufo-Addo administration to go ahead and terminate contracts it deems wrongfully executed under the previous regime. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a new government in place [and] if they think that they have to cancel the contract, they should go ahead and do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were very transparent, we opened up; we didn\u2019t hide anything and so if there are difficulties we should all look at it as a country and deal with it,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 57 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