Ablakwa, in a column aggregate on X on Friday, August 2, 2024, said that Service Ghana Auto, in the account it issued, bootless to abode the affair of battle of absorption in the arrangement it got from the government because one of its directors, Stephen Okoro, was a abutting accessory of the Akufo-Addos.
The MP said that the aggregation bootless to accede that Stephen Okoro is a business accomplice of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's daughters, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo and Edwina Akufo-Addo.
He appropriate that Stephen Okoro was not alone a business accomplice of the president's daughters but he has additionally fathered a adolescent with one of them.
"Service Ghana Auto Group Limited's account advisedly bootless to acknowledge to the politically apparent cachet of a key director, Stephen Okoro, who is not alone a abutting business accomplice of the President's daughters, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo and Edwina Akufo-Addo, as absolutely accustomed with official assimilation abstracts of SFO Initiatives Limited, Goodbox Limited and Good Grow Limited.
"SGAGL was additionally disingenuously bashful on Stephen Okoro's familial ties with the presidential family, accepting fathered a grandchild of the President with the President's daughter. Politically apparent bodies consistently appear beneath greater analysis in the action adjoin bribery as they can disproportionately access accretion processes, bribery due action and arrange amoral acquittal agreement in their favour, as we accept apparent in this transaction," he wrote.
The North Tongu administrator additionally acicular out that Service Ghana Auto's affirmation that it submitted a bid for the arrangement in 2018 cannot be accurate because it was registered in 2020.
"From the account of Service Ghana Auto Group Limited, it purportedly alternate in a aggressive accretion action by the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives from 15th November, 2018 as a bunch of 7 companies. Instructively, this bunch could not accept existed in 2018 and 2019 as absolute annal at the Registrar of Companies acknowledge that Service Ghana Auto Group Limited was congenital abundant later, accurately on April 24, 2020."
He additionally said that the company's account that it was allotment of a bunch of seven companies awarded the arrangement cannot be accurate because best of the companies were accustomed in 2017 and had no acquaintance in accretion and application ambulances.
"Claims by SGAGL that it's a bunch which leveraged the ability and assets of its companies in accretion of ambulances is best amusing and ridiculous. Assimilation annal appearance that at atomic 5 of the 7 companies were agilely congenital amid April and September 2017. None of the companies had any ability or clue almanac in accretion and application ambulances. The affirmation speaks for itself: BEFT Engineering was congenital on April 20, 2017 primarily to backpack out construction, renovation, civilian engineering works and electrical engineering works; Elok Consult was congenital on July 25, 2017 to backpack out administration consultancy, civilian works, anchorage and architecture construction; Prestige Era Aggregation Limited was congenital on April 19, 2017 with its altar actuality to backpack out accepted supply, alley and architecture construction, oil and gas articles dealer, carriage and haulage. None of these companies had ability in ambulance accretion and after-sales maintenance. This charge explain why the Auditor-General apparent SGAGL for application agents of the National Ambulance Service for their aliment contract."
Background:
Ablakwa appear an exposé in which he supplied affirmation of acquittal in balance of some $34.9 actor authorised by above Abbot for Finance Ken Ofori-Atta for the acquirement and applicable of additional genitalia on some 307 government ambulances.
In his advertisement of July 21, 2024, he aloft issues apropos declared banking bribery and bribery in the acquittal involving a clandestine company, Service Ghana Auto Group Limited.
According to the MP, the abbot accustomed an bulk of US$34,904,505.00 to be paid to Service Ghana Auto Group Limited for the accretion of additional genitalia for some 307 ambulances purchased by the government in 2019.
According to the MP, the declared bulk translates to $113,695.456 per ambulance, which is added than the amount of abounding absolutely able new ambulances, adopting questions about the account abaft such expenditure.
In the affirmation supplied by the MP, the abbot authorised the acquittal aloof bristles canicule afore he was removed from appointment by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a chiffonier reshuffle appear on February 14, 2024.
Ablakwa alluded to favouritism and abridgement of due activity in the action that led to application the arrangement to Service Auto Group Limited, citation the absence of a aggressive accretion process.
Service Auto Group refuted claims by the North Tongu administrator that there was some abomination in the acquittal of some $34.9 actor accustomed to it by the government for the acquirement and applicable of additional genitalia on some 307 government ambulances.
The aggregation refuted the assertions by the MP that it was offered the arrangement by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo after aggressive abandonment - on a sole sourcing basis.
It explained that it was allotment of 16 companies who bid for the arrangement and allotment of a bunch of 7 companies that were called because they provided appropriate casework at a almost low price.
The aggregation additionally alone a affirmation by the MP that the acquittal of $34.9 actor for the accretion of additional genitalia for the ambulances, which translates to about $113,000 per ambulance, was decidedly college than the amount of accepting new ambulances.
It added that the accusation by Ablakwa that it accustomed $10 actor afore the acquittal of the $34.9 actor has been alone by the Bank of Ghana.
Read Ablakwa's column additional the account by Service Auto Group below: