{"id":605881,"date":"2019-04-07T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Sunday,  7 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n2019-04-07\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/03\/19127638."},"modified":"2019-04-07T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T18:34:00","slug":"cocobod-qcc-govt-orders-investigation-into-gh%c2%a22-2m-cooking-oil-chop-chop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/07\/cocobod-qcc-govt-orders-investigation-into-gh%c2%a22-2m-cooking-oil-chop-chop\/","title":{"rendered":"COCOBOD\/QCC: Gov\u2019t orders investigation into GH\u00a22.2M Cooking Oil \u2018chop chop\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Sunday,  7 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/19127638.295.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Boahen Aidoo 620x406\" title=\"Joseph Boahen Aidoo 620x406\" width=\"295\" height=\"193\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Cocobod CEO<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Chief Executive Officer of Cocobod Joseph Boahen Aidoo has called for an investigation into a 2.2 million Ghana Cedi sole-sourced cooking oil contract that was believed to have been bloated by more than 400% by the Quality Control Company under COCOBOD with approval from the Public Procurement Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The cooking oil which was procured by the QCC at GH\u00a255 each is sold by MELCOM at GH\u00a211 raising eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>The cooking oil contract which was also sole-sourced was awarded to Freight Accord Limited by the Quality Control Company Limited, a subsidiary of COCOBOD for the supply of forty thousand (40,000) litres of Vegetable Oil at a whopping cost of Two Million, Two Hundred and Twenty Thousand Ghana Cedis ( GH\u00a22, 220, 000).<\/p>\n<p>Records available from the Public Procurement Authority website reveal that Quality Control Company Limited sole-sourced the heavily overpriced contract to Freight Accord Limited on 4th January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The expos\u00e9 which was exposed by APLUS caught the attention of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament who queried the CEO of Cocobod over the saga.<\/p>\n<p>APLUS wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday Mr. Fiifi Boafo of Cocoabod and I spoke at length about the sole sourced Quality Control vegetable oil procurements. He informed me that the issue came up when they meet the public accounts committee of parliament and that the CEO has called for an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\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>Business News of Sunday, 7 April 2019 Source: mynewsgh.com 2019-04-07 Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Cocobod CEO Chief Executive Officer of Cocobod Joseph Boahen Aidoo has called for an investigation into a 2.2 million Ghana Cedi sole-sourced cooking oil contract that was believed to have been bloated by more than 400% by the Quality Control Company under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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