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Press Release
NPP, December 22, 2012
The Woyome Affair
A petition, sent by Benjamin Akyena Brentuo to the EOCO.
19th December 2011
The Executive Director
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO)
Old Parliament House
Accra, Ghana
Dear Sir/Madam,
PETITION TO INVESTIGATE FORMER PRESIDENT KUFUOR AND THE
GOVERNMENT CABINET OF 2005/2006 FOR WILFULLY CAUSING
FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE
On September 6, 2010, In the High Court of Justice,
Commercial Division, His Lordship Mr. I. O. Tanko Amadu
ordered the State of Ghana to pay a judgment debt of
approximately Fifty Two Million Ghana Cedis (Ghc 52m) to Mr.
Alfred Agbesi Woyome and over twenty five million Euros
(€25m) was paid to Waterville (BVI) through Arbitration.
By this development, the State of Ghana has lost huge sums
of the tax payers’ money through the abrogation of a
contract by former President John Agyekum Kufuor and his
cabinet, to Waterville/Vamed Engineering, which event
occurred on August 22, 2005. The Central Tender Review Board
in accordance with the Public Procurement Act 2003, Act 663,
had awarded the contract to Waterville/Vamed Engineering on
August 5, 2005. The contract was finally signed between
Government of Ghana and Waterville on April 26, 2006.
Additionally, although no evidence has been adduced to the
public as yet to show that Shanghai Construction Group; the
company which finally executed the contract mentioned supra,
formally bid to undertake the job, my checks also show that
Shanghai Construction Group did not demonstrate proof of
technical and financial capabilities, which were the basic
qualification requirements set out by the LOC/MOEYS, and
formed the primary criteria for rejecting other companies
who subjected themselves to the highly rigorous bidding
process. I refer you to Cabinet memo as attached.
I also find it disturbing, that government funded the
project with a Commercial loan of about two hundred and
fifty million dollars ($250m) at a variable interest of
around 10%, a decision that was against governments’ own
advertised procurement financial requirement. It also
contradicted the Judgment of the Central Tender Review
Board.
Submitted to Ghanadot by:
NPP Communications Directorate
NPP Headquarters, Asylum Down. Accra.
Dep. Director: Curtis Perry K. Okudzeto
(024-9679008)
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