"It is legitimate to expect that getting value for money from contracts, especially those with SPs would have attracted utmost attention, especially in the prevailing economic environment, where reducing costs and conserving cash should be a priority. It is the view of the Committee that several contracts signed by MoYS with SPs are fraught with value leakages, commercial inefficiencies and waste. For instance: 1. Asongtaba is yet to equip beneficiaries trained under the dressmaking module two years ago in the Western Region. Master trainers have also not been paid even though Asongtaba has been fully paid forty three million three hundred and ninety thousand Ghana cedis (GHS43, 390,000.00) for the service. Similar cases were uncovered in several of the Regions visited by the Committee. In spite of all these evidence of non-delivery on the first contract, GYEEDA went ahead and expanded the dressmaking module. 2. As of the end of 2012, in relation to the MOU dated 23rd July 2012 for the training of 30,000 persons within two years, by July 2014, only 4,222 persons had been recruited and started training. The training for the 4,222 persons was not even completed, yet RLG had been paid fully the sum of twenty five million and five hundred thousand Ghana cedis (GHS25, 500,000.00) for the training and setting up of 15,000 beneficiaries. 3. With respect to an MoU dated 12th November 2010, as of December 2012, only 17, 824 persons out of 24,000 had been set up as self-employed persons in mobile phone repairs, but full payment of seventeen million, three hundred and fifty thousand Ghana cedis (GHS17, 350,000.00) had been made to RLG."
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:36:20 +0000