The government of Ghana has reviewed a textbook contract signed by the erstwhile John Mahama administration from GHS134million to GHS89million, saving the country’s kitty GHS45million, Minister of Information Mustapha Hamid has disclosed.
According to him, the decision is consistent with government’s approach towards contracts that “we came to meet, where if possible, we have renegotiated the terms to make them more favourable to the Ghanaian people”.
“In the Ministry of Education for example, we renegotiated the cost of printing textbooks, which the former government had signed with printers. Instead of GHS134 million, we renegotiated downwards to GHS89 million,” Mr Hamid disclosed on Tuesday, February 6.
He explained that it is in the same spirit that the Finance Minister asked the Auditor-General to “audit the financial liabilities that had been bequeathed to us, and which has revealed that some GHS5.4 billion of legacy debts are dodgy”.
The Minister emphasised that government remains committed to the goal of protecting the public purse, while ensuring value for money in the greater interest of Ghanaians.
Also, government says it has saved $300,000 after renegotiation a $9.1million deal to purchase some bulletproof vehicles for the presidency.
The government said the renegotiated deal cut the number of vehicles for the presidency from 43 to 34 and bought 100 Toyota Corollas in place of the extra nine luxury cars.
The John Mahama-led administration in January 2017 was condemned for ordering the vehicles a few days to handing over to the incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government headed by President Nana Akufo-Addo.
According to Mr Hamid, “We have done all this with a total amount of 8.8 million United States Dollars”.
Source: classfmonline.com
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NPP ALL THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IS BIG BORING TALK-TALK, TALK-TALK, TALK-TALK NO PERFORMANCE AFTER ONE FULL YEAR IN OFFICE. YOU CONTINUE TO SPEND ALL YOUR VALUABLE TIME TO TALK BIG. IF YOU PEOPLE (NPP) ARE SLEEPING LET ME ALERT YOU THAT YOU HAVE LESS THAN 35 MONTHS TO ACCOUNT TO THE ELECTORATE TO JUSTY YOUR INCLUSION IN GOVERNANCE COME 2020. KEEP ON SMILING TO YOURSELVES. THE D-DAY IS CREEPING SLOWLY BUT VERY FAST TO CATCH-UP WITH YOU (NPP)
@HolyGhost, believe it its true.
Npp always on the campaign trail with big lies, i will never believe this kwaku anansi story from the big ***barred word*** mouth liar called hamid
Well this is not the first time NPP does renegotiations! We have the Tetteh Quarshie roundabout as an example! We see what it became. It did not solve the traffic problem at all and sometimes even compounds it!
WHY DO GHANAIANS VALUE CARS LIKE THAT?FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM,ALL OF THEM.CHILDREN ARE DYING EVERYDAY IN THE HOSPITALS,PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD A DAY MEAL YET LEADERS ARE BUYING CARS HERE AND THERE EVERYDAY.WHAT AT ALL IS WRONG WITH OUR MINDS?
ndc under mahama are full of thieveeeesss.. special prosecutor where re uuu
EBEI NDC STEALERS! NEVER AGAIN IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY SHOULD THESE COME TO POWER. TOTAL ***barred word***. SEND THEM TO NSAWAM ONE BY ONE. THEY ARE SO CALLOUS. NAKED, DAYLIGT ROBBERS AND BETTY MOULD IDDRISU SAYS WHAT? LET HER COME AGAIN.