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Parliament is set to question the Procurement Minister over claims Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) CEO failed to go through due process in the award of a GH¢28.8 million contract.
Adwoa Sarfo and Stephen Amoah are to answer for the circumstances under which MASLOC purchased 1,800 second-hand vehicles from Germany for GH¢28.8 million. According to Ashaiman legislator Ernest Norgbey, the contract which was awarded to a private firm, Dextro-Impex Company Limited, did not go through competitive bidding.
Mr Norgbey also alleges that the decision by the MASLOC CEO, Stephen Amoah, to give the supplying company a letter of comfort to allow them to raise funds to execute the contract, was out of place.
“At the time that these contracts were signed there was no board in place but the CEO took it upon himself to do all these things. “We keep talking about sole sourcing and fighting corruption but if one CEO can take the decision to award a contract worth GH¢28.8 million, then there is every cause to worry,” he said.
March 13, 2018
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