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Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of the Nominating Committee of Parliament has expressed his shock at the level at which some ministerial nominees refuse to provide clarity on the contract awarded to Frontiers Healthcare Solution Services Limited to conduct the COVID-19 test at the International Airport by Kotoka.
The North Tongu legislator has yet to come to terms with the position of appointed ministers on the matter.
Five ministerial nominees who were allegedly aware of the contract have denied knowledge of it, raising suspicions among a section of the investigation panel and even some Ghanaians.
Ministerial nominees for Health, Foreign Relations, National Security, Justice and Gender [Former Procurement Minister] Failed explain the fundamental problem of how the contract was obtained moments after the reopening of the country’s air borders to travelers in September 2020.
Mr. Ablakwa has thus described the turn of events as the “world’s greatest mystery.”
Speaking in the Point of view in Citi TV, I ask:
Why has it become the greatest mystery in the world? Why has it become a plague that no one wants to get close to? Everybody is running away. Let’s see what the procurement processes are. Where is the contract? Let’s see it and its terms. ”
Ablakwa on the show argued that the nominees’ inability to provide real answers is because “the entire framework model is wrong with the speculation mindset.”
He wondered why a contract would be awarded to a company with no record.
The minority deputy further asked why the government did not make resources available to develop the capacity of local agents such as the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research to carry out the tests, but decided to hand it over to a foreign-owned company.
“Frontiers solutions that didn’t have a track record were available off the shelf and could be sold. This was a golden opportunity to support Noguchi in capacity building, ”he said.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ablakwa says his side will continue to raise this fundamental question to solicit appropriate possible responses from nominees, particularly Finance and Transportation, who have yet to come before the Nominating Committee in the coming days.
“We will continue to repeat and pose this question to the nominees. We have said in Parliament that we have the contract because by law we carry out the supervision, but everyone runs away. We must know what is happening, “he said.
—Citinewsroom
