The Account Ghana Auto Group Lim­ited (SGAGL) has parried allegations of aggrandized costs in its arrangement for after-sales account and aliment of the 307 ambulances

In a account appear yes­terday and affected the Ghanaian Times, in acknowledgment to claims by the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablak­wa, alleging banking improprieties surrounding the accretion and aliment of the ambulances, SGAGL said, the allegations aloft by the MP were unfounded

"SGAGL is an SPV of a consor­tium of seven companies that par­ticipated in a aggressive procure­ment process, not sole-sourced, and adjudged on arete to annex and accommodate after-sales account and aliment for 307 Mercedes Benz Sprinter ambulances for the National Ambulance Account (NAS)," the account explained

Mr Ablakwa, who is additionally the Chairman of the Economic Com­mittee in Parliament, had accused the government and SGAGL of agreeable in a "rip-off" accord and claimed that aloft Finance Min­ister, Ken Ofori-Atta, had agilely accustomed a acquittal of US$34.9 actor for the accretion of additional genitalia for the ambulances. He added claimed that the amount, about US$113,000 per ambulance, was decidedly college than the amount of acquir­ing new ambulances, abacus that US$10 actor had already been disbursed to SGAGL

However, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) after antiseptic that no pay­ment had been fabricated on the letter of acclaim accustomed for US$10 million, as the all-important appeal for acquittal had not been made

Responding, SGAGL in the columnist release, stated, that "the $34.9m of which Letters of Acclaim (LC) was accustomed for $10m is falsely assigned to awning alone me­chanical parts, and the amount afresh was wrongfully allotted at about $113,000 account of additional genitalia per ambulance." Explaining further, SGAGL said the antecedent aggressive procure­ment action was accomplished by the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives in November 2018. The action arrive tenders for 275 units of 4×4 ambulances, after assorted to 4×2 for 307 vehicles

"A absolute of 16 companies par­ticipated, across-the-board of the seven companies that eventually formed the bunch during the pre-ten­der branch round," it said

The companies that formed the bunch included Luxury World Auto Group Limited, Elok Consult, RDC Aggregation Limited, Beft Engineering Works Limited, Prestige Era Aggregation Limited, Bluemix Aggregation Limited, and Quality Supply and Builders Com­pany Limited

The absolution additionally emphasised that the consortium's acquiescence with all breakable requirements, including accepting manufacturer's authori­sation from Mercedes Benz for the ambulances and EMSA ambu­lances for the medical accessories installed in the vehicles

SGAGL added declared that they had accustomed a committed work­shop and abutment infrastructure, including the advance of the Ministry of Agriculture's branch in Kumasi and a purpose-built branch at the NAS address in Accra

Additionally, SGAGL addressed the allegation of a 2022 Performance Analysis by the Auditor-General, which had reportedly accent issues such as aggrandized invoices and mismanagement

The aggregation accustomed accepting cogent disagreements with the analysis address and declared that they had refunded amounts afield labelled as bifold payments

This, SGAGL warned adjoin the broadcasting of apocryphal advice in the accretion of the ambu­lances and its after-sales account aggressive to seek acknowledged accomplishments adjoin bodies who advance such apocryphal information

"The bunch and SGAGL accept and will abide to act aloft lath in their dealings," the account concluded, abacus that they will authority answerable those amenable for overextension apocryphal allegations  BY TIMES REPORTER