Reports of contract diversion between GACL and LCB are false - Aviation Ministry clarifies

The Ministry of Aviation has dismissed widespread reports accusing the Minister for Aviation, Joseph Kofi Adda, and the Managing Director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Mr. Yaw Kwakwa, of diverting a contract that has been awarded to LCB Worldwide (LCB) for the disinfection of airports as false.

In a statement issued and signed by the Minister of Aviation and copied to GhanaWeb said the "allegation is designed to force the Ministry and GACL to contract the company’s services under duress."

"In-as-much as the Ministry and its agencies welcome companies interested in any aspect of business in the sector which they qualify to undertake, especially the likes of LCB, which may have specialized products and services relevant to the operations of the aviation industry, the Ministry and its agencies will not countenance any engagement that does not go through due process as provided for under the Public Procurement Act," the statement explained.

"By the standards and procedures of the sector Ministry and its agencies, LCB has no contractual relationship with GACL, and the accusation of contract diversion is blatantly false," it noted.

"For the avoidance of doubt, we state emphatically that neither the Minister for Aviation nor the MD of GACL has diverted any contract for LCB, and may we also add that the latter has no contract with either MoA or GACL to undertake any form of disinfection or installation of any types of gadgets, as the Governing Board of GACL has not approved such a contract for LCB," the Ministry stated.

Prior to this, Zoomlion Ghana Limted recently disinfected the airports in the country, paying way for the resumption of domestic flights after the lifting of the coronavirus lockdown.

Read the Ministry of Aviation's statement below;