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IMANI Ghana Vice President Bright Simons has called on Ghanaians to trust IMANI Ghana and by extension civil society organizations rather than the Election Commission.
According to Bright Simons, the EC over the years has shed more lies than truths about its procurement work, some of which have been exposed by the country’s CSOs.
He said: “We found out they were lying at every turn. Trust and lies don’t mix. “
This, according to him, is the reason why IMANI Ghana always refuses to give the EC the benefit of the doubt.
In a social media post, he noted that after reading thousands of pages of CE’s procurement work, it is hard to believe that the electoral body will ever speak the truth, hence the need for Ghanaians to listen to CSOs when they speak. the truth about the problems.
Find her full post below:
A. They announced to the entire nation that since 2011, they had not purchased new BVD and BVR. Lies. They spent $ 60 million on these machines between 2015 and 2019.
B. The $ 70 million bid for Thales’ latest equipment was rigged so badly that the head of the procurement committee resigned.
C. They decided to pay more than $ 3.5 million for biometric software from Lithuania that the vendor sells for $ 350,000. IMANI posted the full scoping study online for everyone to verify for themselves.
D. They have never passed an asset audit and have never auctioned off discarded new machines.
E. They demonized their predecessors and called vendors who worked on the 2016 system crooked, which according to CODEO reports, was more efficient end-to-end compared to 2020.
F. It turns out that in 2019 and 2020, they were still paying old providers millions for services.
G. If they had spent the $ 15 million we think they needed on new equipment for the new polling stations (instead of $ 70 million) and they had not spent $ 60 million on good devices, they could have spent $ 5 million to increase the centers compilation.
H. Your new broadcast network would not have failed to connect.
