Information available to Joy News indicates that the Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies has been invited by the police for questioning over some questionable contracts.
The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, sources say, wrote to Mr Joseph Siaw Agyepong following Joy News’ investigative series detailing questionable contracts involving subsidiaries of the Jospong Group.
The letter was reportedly sent on Wednesday afternoon.
Joy News can also confirm that the investigation was authorised by the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, Gloria Akuffo.
The CID also wrote to Joy News’ lead investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, to assist with the investigations into a waste bin contract awarded to subsidiaries of the Group.
Mr Awuni after nine months of investigations discovered that the Local Government Ministry last year awarded a $74 million contract to five subsidiaries of the Jospong Group to supply one million waste bins and 90,000 bin liners.
He found that the waste bins were not needed as a similar contract awarded by the ministry in 2014 had yet to be fully performed – 55,000 waste bins were yet to be taken from the suppliers.
About 100,000 waste bins under that contract distributed to metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies were lying waste.
In spite of this, the ministry awarded another contract to the five Jospong subsidiaries under single sourcing to supply the waste bins.
Joy News also found out that the contract sum may have been inflated by about GHS130 million.
Our sources say the businessman is expected to assist the police with investigations into fumigation contracts which are also of a questionable character.
Meanwhile, Joy News has gathered all sanitation contracts with subsidiaries of the Jospong Group have been suspended.
The various MMDAs have been directed by government to take over the management of sanitation in their respective jurisdictions in the mean time.
Source: myjoyonline
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CHURCH OF PENTECOAST IN GHANA AN UTTER DISGRACE AND A FAKE CHURCH AND JUST LIKE MOST BIG CHURCHES YOU ACCEPT BIG STOLDEN MONIES FROM THESE KROKKED BUSINESSMEN TO BANK ROLE YOUR CHURCHES UNDER THE GUISE OF TITHES _SHAME UNTO YOU !!!!!!; THEY STILL AND CAUSE PAIN TO OTHER PEOPLE AND THEN CLAIM GOD HAS BLESSDE THEM !!!
Oyiwa, Church of Pentecost. This corrupt guy pays so much tithe for the church and they are happy to use him as a role mode. Church of Pentecost pastors, return the monies he has used as tithes over the years. The pastors should be ashamed of themselves for their inability to detect that the monies came from corrupt practices. Mention them, GYEEDA, etc.
THESE GUYS WILL BE PARADIND IN CHURCHES AND ON T.V SAYING ALL KINDS OF ***barred word*** LIKE,(1)I STARTED LIFE SELLING PLANTAIN,AND THROUGH MY HARD WORK,LOOK HOW WORTHY I HAVE BECOME.(2)I STARTED LIFE AS A SHOE MAKER,BUT BY DINT OF HARD WORK,LOOK AT WHERE I AM.THEY WILL PAINT A GOOD PICTURE TO THE WHOLE WORLD,WHILES IN TRUTH,THEY ARE ALL LIES.STEALING FROM THE POOR,AND COUNTRY AND EVEN SOMETIMES DRUGS SMUGLING IS THEIR MAIN SOURCE OF WORLTH.SOMETIMES MOST OF OUR CHURCHES KNOW BUT,BECAUSE OF MONIES THEY DISH OUT TO THEM,THEY DEFEND AND PROTECT THEM.THE MOST ANNOYING ASPECT IS WHEN THEY GIVE THEM POSITIONS IN CHURCH AND THEY TAKE PEOPLES WIFES AND PRETEND TO BE HOLLIER THAN GOD HIMSELF.
Massa; Nobody can convince me that any Ghanaian business man or any pastor in Ghana are clean because they are as dirty they come and worse than armed robbers ; all of them are toxic as they come ; Ghana is a country tainted with the toxic poison of stilling and corruption in all places ; all our so called businessmen are all corrupt and thiffs; this Siaw guy from Jospong and other businessmen in Ghana are so corrupt and affiliated with the NPP and NDC and are used to siphon state cash to feed these parties ; in Ghana today anybody can be a businessman or a pastor ; you can set up as many businesses and churches as you ; all you need to do is to marry the three mixture ; church; businessmen and politicians and you have good mix of of kriminally enterprise to dupe the state ; take the case of Duncan-Williams and Mensah-Otabil ; they use the Bible as a tyool to full their congrgatuion and use their dubious skills to buy their way into the political elite ; how can a pastor Mensah -Otabil with all that he says about credible financial management just fall foul of a bankrupt bank ; how can Siaw of Jaspong a leading member of the Pentecoastal churh paying huge sums of money get involved in such companies stiulling state monies ; BUSINESSMEN HAVE KRIMINAL MINDS !!!!!
thanks very much jail him quickly. u nailed it. thats the problem of ghanaians. we praise ***barred word***, corrupt people in our society and give them fake dr degrees
Jail him quickly.
I don't know who the Church of Pentecost will now use as example in the payment of tithes and offerings. Anytime we go to church the Pastors and Area Heads use Zoomlion Boss and TOBINCO as exmaples of people who pay so much tithes and offerings so everybody should emulate them. I am not against people paying so much tithes but we should not be quick to praise people who get rich without knowing the source of their riches. Some of them are nation wreckers and drug barons