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General News of Wednesday, 10 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n2019-04-10\n\n

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General News of Wednesday, 10 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n

2019-04-10<\/p>\n

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\"BawumiaVice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has been accused of preventing technical officers from coming up with a value for money audit on the Sinohydro deal.<\/p>\n

The Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Road and Transport Committee, Kwami Agbodza, feels Dr. Bawumia has been obstructing value for money processes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m singling out the Vice President as being the one who is not allowing the due process of value for money to be done and he is going ahead with the sod cutting [ceremony].\u201d<\/p>\n

The Minority raised concerns about the absence of a value for money audit and a legal opinion before the Master Support Agreement of the Sinohydro deal was approved.<\/p>\n

But the government insisted that these requirements will be fulfilled.<\/p>\n

Mr. Agbodza, however, does not think these requirements are adequately being met.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the interaction with agencies and other things, I noticed that the quality of documents that were brought to Parliament was below par and I don\u2019t see how colleagues and professionals at the Ministry would have supervised that level of documentation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah responded to claims on the Citi Breakfast Show saying there was a value for money audit and that the MP was \u201cbeing mischievous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Agbodza had earlier complained that the average cost of a kilometre of a road under the project has shot up from the initial sum of over $1 million to about GHc 6 million because of the declining value of the cedi against the dollar.<\/p>\n

He also complained that other critical financial and commercial agreements were brought Parliament without legal opinions and value for money audits.<\/p>\n

Mr. Agbodza cautioned that such shortcomings handicapped Parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis House cannot be seen to be approving agreements without the critical ingredients when it comes to procurement contracts in this House,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As the MP voices his concerns, President Nana Akufo-Addo is expected to cut the sod for the construction of the Tamale Interchange project which will mark the official commencement of the $2 billion infrastructure project under the Sinohydro Master Project Agreement.<\/p>\n

The Master Project Support was agreed between Ghana and China in 2017 in his geared towards address major infrastructure challenges in the country.<\/p>\n

Under the deal, Sinohydro Group Limited of China will provide the infrastructure of the government\u2019s choice in exchange for Ghana\u2019s refined bauxite.<\/p>\n

Ghana will establish a refinery and select a partner to undertake the refining of the bauxite in line with the project.<\/p>\n

The agreement will fund other infrastructure like roads, bridges, interchanges, hospitals, housing, railway development as well as rural electrification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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