- Dear Mr. Haruna Iddrisu,
I’m happy you’ve mentioned the fraudulent and unconscionable Zoomlion contract in the House of Parliament.
Akufo-Addo and his NPP said in November 2016 that the contract was fraudulent. They said President Mahama could not cancel such deals because he was personally benefitting from them.
When Akufo-Addo won the election, he became Zoomlion and Jospong’s number one PR agent. Should we assume he’s benefitting from it too?
Well, what we can say for sure is that the government still maintains that fraudulent contract despite finding issues with it after auditing the numbers.
In December 2021, Dr. Kwabena Donkor mentioned this issue on the floor of Parliament. He described it as a “serious injustice” against the Zoomlion workers, who receive almost nothing at the end of the month.
The Rt. Hon. Speaker, Alban Sumana Bagbin, formed a committee to look into it and report to the House by February 2022.
Ask the Speaker and Dr. Kwabena Donkor what they found?
Were they satisfied with the same issues you’re raising serious concerns with, or after it was raised in parliament, they settled it amicably with Zoomlion?
If there was no amicable solution, what became of the committee’s work? What redress did they seek and from what quarters?
I’ve been drawing attention to this for the past 10 years and nothing is being done. If I were a normal human being, I should have stopped this long ago.
Akufo-Addo is now in bed with Jospong and when John Mahama promises to undertake a “24-Hour Economy in Waste and Sanitation Management”, only one company came to mind–Zoomlion.
Your submission shows that there’s a real problem with the contract and not that Manasseh hates Zoomlion as his paid agents propagate.
I, however, hope you will follow it through this time. Even the stupidest person in Cabinet or Parliament knows that the Bongo District Assembly doesn’t need a company from Accra to manage sweepers of the Bongo market and be paid from the assembly’s share of the Common Fund in Accra.
Any form of modification to that contract is fraud. The only sensible thing to do is to ask the assemblies to manage their own sweepers and allow the money to be paid to the sweepers instead of intermediaries. The assemblies have waste and sanitation departments that are better qualified than the average Zoomlion district managers.
So why can’t anyone cancel this fraudulent deal that was started by President Kufuor in 2006 on an appalling note?
I wrote in The Fourth John that whenever Zoomlion is involved, government officials act without consulting their brains. I hope one day I will be proven wrong.
Humbly submitted,
Manasseh Azure Awuni.
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