Two Billion cedis spent on motorbikes

Workers of the Ghana Water Company Limited have listed a number of improprieties allegedly committed under its former management and called on the committee currently probing the activities of the company to look into them, reports The Evening News.

In a resolution adopted at a joint Consultative Committee meeting and signed by 54 of workers nationwide, they called on the probe committee to investigate the bulk purchase of slow moving fittings for stocking at a cost of 5 billion cedis from Western Casting.

According to them, the purchase of 30,000 pieces of water meters at 41 dollars each and the decision to engage in cash purchase of Water Treatment Chemicals should also be investigated. The workers called on the committee to investigate "the phony and expensive attempt at computerization of the Financial and Commercial operations at the cost of 1.6 billion cedis, the Abease Pipe laying project in the Brong Ahafo Region and the privatisation of the revenue arrears collection.

They further demanded a probe into the three million-pound sterling contracts for the supply and installation of No. 10 Horsely Bridge Tanks in the ATMA and the lease of the Company's Training School premises and facilities to third parties.