Policy Analyst for the People�s National Convention (PNC), Atik Mohammed and Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Vitus Azeem, have called on the President to explain the circumstances behind the advertisement for bids for the ICT Module of GYEEDA even though the issues for which all the modules under GYEEDA were suspended, have not been resolved.
Speaking on Oman FM�s National Agenda Morning Show, the Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption civil society group called on the President to explain the sudden rush to re-launch only the ICT module under GYEEDA and called on government to come clear on the matter as soon as possible.
These comments follow the advertisement for bids by GYEEDA for a re-launch of the ICT Module in the Daily Graphic of 3rd April, 2014 even though the government is yet to complete the restructuring of the Programme and get a proper legal framework to back the programme as was announced when the modules of the programme were suspended.
Speaking on the same programme, Policy Analyst of the PNC, Atik Mohammed also called on the President to immediately look into the matter of the advert.
Atik Mohammed, who was obviously outraged by the advert in the Daily Graphic, wondered why the GYEEDA coordinator, Kobby Acheampong and the Sector Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, were only interested in re-launching the ICT module when the restructuring of GYEEDA had not been completed while the GYEEDA law meant to give a proper legal backing to the operations of GYEEDA had not even been laid in parliament.
He urged the President to sit up if he�s indeed not aware of the plans to re-launch the ICT Module.
Atik observed that even though the Advert was published on the 3rd of April, the deadline for submission of bids according to advert is 30th March and said that the discrepancies in the advert clearly exposed the shadiness of the ongoing attempt to resuscitate GYEEDA, suggesting that in his opinion, the contract has already been awarded secretly with the advert being just a smokescreen.
He called on the President to investigate the advert and find out who placed the advert and what interest the sector Minister and coordinator have in the ICT Module and for the President to immediately suspend the advertisement and cancel the process which has been initiated till the restructuring of GYEEDA is completed and the GYEEDA law passed.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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