Member of Parliament (MP)
for North Tongu. Samuel Okodzeto Ablakwa, has revealed the currently praised District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP) contract was inflated by $102 million.
According Okudzeto, government would have saved this amount if it has used the tendering process to source for bids and getting equipments for the programme, rather than offering the contract through sole sourcing to J.A Plantpool, a subsidiary of the Zoomlion group.
In a post mae on X, Okudzeto revealed the on going special parliamentary oversight of DRIP led to this revelation.
Portions of his post read; “Our ongoing special parliamentary oversight on the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government’s District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP) has revealed a scary tale of unconscionable inflationary pricing on a nation wrecking scale.
In part one of the DRIP Scandal exposé, incontrovertible evidence was provided about how the hitherto unknown elephantine US$178.7million (GHS2.8billion) DRIP contract was not awarded competitively but was single-sourced in an opaque sweetheart deal to J.A. Plantpool of the Zoomlion conglomerate.
Vice President Bawumia was right when he consistently stated in 2016 and 2017 that sole-sourcing and single-sourcing leads to overpriced contracts and that they do not guarantee value for money. Unfortunately, despite pledging to end the canker, the ever-deceptive Vice President Bawumia soon forgot his principled position when his brother, Abraham Bawumia was awarded multiple overpriced single-sourced road contracts.
It has now been confirmed beyond any scintilla of doubt that all the DRIP equipment which Bawumia touts as his singular achievement have been wickedly and unpatriotically inflated by over US$102million (GHS1.6billion).”
THE DISTURBING SECRETS AKUFO-ADDO & BAWUMIA DO NOT WANT GHANAIANS TO KNOW ABOUT DRIP (PART 2)
HOW THE DRIP CONTRACT WAS UNCONSCIONABLY INFLATED BY OVER US$102MILLION (GHS1.6billion).
Our ongoing special parliamentary oversight on the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government’s District… pic.twitter.com/cxGWvHTLIk
— Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa (@S_OkudzetoAblak) September 25, 2024
