Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has been paying $1.5m every month to Kelni GVG for no work done since 2018 - Franklin Cudjoe

Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, Franklin Cudjoe has called on the Minister of Finance, Mohammed Amin Adam, to cancel the Kelni GVG contract, citing wasteful expenditure.

According to Cudjoe, the Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has been paying Kelni GVG $1.5 million every month since 2018 for no work done.

"Mohammed Amin Adam l believe in your zeal to block leakages. Please cancel Kelni GVG contract. Ursula has been paying $1.5m every month to Kelni GVG since 2018 according to the crookish contract for NO WORK DONE!!" Cudjoe shared on Facebook.

Background

In May of this year (2018), IMANI began issuing a series of alerts and reports on the decision by the Ministry of Communications (MOC), acting in concert with its technical agency, the National Communications Authority (NCA), to award a 10-year contract worth nearly $180 million to an entity known as Kelni GVG.

In June of the same year, a Principal of IMANI, Kofi Bentil, acting as a public interest lawyer, commenced multiple lawsuits on behalf of Maximus Amertogoh and Sara Asafu-Adjaye against the Ministry of Communications on grounds of financial maladministration and threats to privacy. A totally separate legal action was also underway by a company called, Subah, meant to injunct the take-off of the Kelni-GVG contract on the grounds that the contract infringed on Subah’s existing contract with the government which, to its mind, had been unlawfully abrogated.

IMANI supported the actions of Kofi Bentil, and was indifferent to the case of Subah since it had different perceptions about the whole approach to “telecom taxation revenue assurance” that Subah believed in.



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