Akufo-Addo's Minister trapped in struggle? - JoyNews examinations
JoyNews' examinations have uncovered how an organization connected to the Deputy Sanitation Minister, Amidu Issahaku Chinnia, and enlisted in the names of his sibling, cousin, and individual driver won government contracts at the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council during his residency as Deputy Regional Minister.
The Batuowiisi Company Limited was set up in 2017 scarcely a month after his arrangement and around the same time won a 2.6 million cedi Planting for Food and Jobs contract.
They were again granted a 12.6-million-cedi street contract in 2019 by the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council.
Reports located by JoyNews show that on 22nd July 2019, Batuowiisi Company Limited was granted an agreement by the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council to restore a 5.7-kilometer chose town streets in Tumu. The agreement aggregate was north of 12 million cedis.
The Batuowiisi Company Limited should have gone to the site on 22nd November 2019, the firm given its notification to begin work around the same time for initiation on fifth December 2019 and complete the street projects on fourth June 2021.
Two months after the date of initiation, the organization neglected to prepare to the site to start work, in spite of its program of work.
At the point when JoyNews visited Tumu, the extensions developed by the project worker stay overwhelmed and to some degree covered under weeds. The courses are gagged with residue and weeds. It has passed on in its path disappointment and desolation to the numerous merchants who carry out their specialty in Tumu in the Sissala East region. The Upper West Department of Urban Roads office stakes progress of work at under two percent.
Nashiru Nashara, a broker says the present status of the street is influencing their business.
This declaration was validated by a moderately aged merchant, Mumuni Maria. She is dismayed by the condition of the streets and needs quick government intercession.
This street contract was granted to Batuowiisi Company Limited scarcely three months after the streets and thruways service gave the organization with an endorsement to start work.
As per records from the Registrar General's specialty, the Batuowiisi Company Limited, was set up on the twelfth of April, 2017 scarcely a month after parliament's arrangements board endorsed the selection of then representative Upper West Regional Minister, Amidu Issahaku Chinnia.
The organization chiefs were Abdul Bazak Chinnia, the Deputy Minister's sibling, Olantunji Amuda, his cousin and Dimbie Yahaya, his driver.
Chief Director of Community Development Alliance Ghana, Salifu Issifu Kanton, has been supporting for the restoration of the chose town streets. As an indigene of Tumu, he says the dissatisfactions of individuals are apparent in their failure in progressive government.
Be that as it may, as per him, the condition of the streets and the conditions encompassing how the agreement was granted raises worries of irreconcilable circumstance.
He said the chose town street reserved for restoration is a distinct advantage in opening up Tumu municipality to business.
Project Manager, Alhaji Keba Mahama, is the worker for hire who chipped away at the scaffolds and ducts. He says the agreement was rented to him by Dimbie Yahaya, the driver of the representative priest. He says work has slowed down in light of assets. However, that was not the commitment made to him when he was first reached to take up the task.
At the point when JoyNews reached the Roads and Highways Ministry for subtleties on the undertaking, Acting Chief Director, Dr. Abass Awulu, said the agreement was granted through open serious delicate and was publicized in the Ghanaian Times.
Three firms purchased the delicate records and submitted same on the end date. On the topic of how an organization with no history in street development was granted this agreement, he said the assessment of tenders went through post capability practice toward the finish of which the most minimal assessed delicate, the Batuowiisi Company Limited, was suggested for the honor by the Upper West Regional Entity Tender Committee.
"The interaction followed for granting this agreement was the public cutthroat offering methodology as endorsed by the public obtainment act, 2003."
"The limit for granting this agreement was inside that of the Upper West Regional Entity Committee and the Upper West Regional Tender Review Committee. On whether it was alluded to the obtainment expert for endorsement, the service said Act 663 doesn't recommend reference for endorsement in public serious tenders."
There is significantly more, a reminder got from the service of food and horticulture dated 24th February 2020 said the Batuowiisi Company restricted possessed by the Deputy Upper West Minister got to cultivate inputs under the planting for food and occupations crusade.
The update peruses that per the plan, the organization paid GHc1,330,000 of the expense of the financed inputs passing on a remarkable equilibrium of Ghc1,330,000 to be paid in the wake of gathering of homestead produce. In any case, a few updates from the acting Director of Crop Services at the agric service, Seth Osei-Akoto, for the organization to pay the exceptional equilibrium demonstrated pointless.
The update addressed to the Upper West Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin-Salih, was for him to urge his then-agent to pay the equilibrium owed the Agric Ministry. At the point when JoyNews found the Director of Crop Services, Seth Osei-Akoto, he said the service has drawn in with the Deputy Sanitation priest and Member of Parliament for Sissala East to structure an installment intend to counterbalance the extraordinary equilibrium of over 1.3 million cedis.
Presently, Amidu Issahaku Chinnia is the delegate sterilization clergyman and MP for Sissala East.
The central issues are the reason could the reminder address him as the proprietor of Batuowiisi Company restricted? How did his driver, cousin and sibling frame an organization, which got a street contract with the Upper West Coordinating Council when he was the representative priest for a similar district?
At the point when JoyNews reached Amidu Issahaku Chinnia, he conceded that he knows the overseers of the Batuowiisi Company Limited, however completely denied affecting any of the cycles prompting the honor of the agreements.
The representative pastor likewise brought up that when the organization was offering for a street contract at the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council he didn't know about the overseers of the organization. This was two gather a long time up from when the Batuowiisi Company won an agreement under planting for food and occupations crusade at the Agriculture Ministry. The service had connected him to the Batuowiisi Company Limited.
Answering agric service's cases that he is the proprietor of the organization, he demonstrated that his sibling, cousin and his driver who are the overseers of the organization have kept in touch with the service to address the blunder in that case. Yet, that proof is yet to be submitted to the news group after we put a solicitation to him.
A duty profile from the Ghana Revenue Authority murmured by the JoyNews Investigative group uncovered that in 2018 the Batuowiisi Company Limited paid expense of 600 cedis, in 2019, they paid 600 cedis, in 2020 they paid 3,488 cedis with their tax reductions however there is an exceptional assessment of 3,250 cedis the organization should pay in 2021.
It has anyway not paid PAYE for its chiefs from October 2019 to October 2021. A duty review of the organization's agreements from 2017 to 2021 by the GRA further uncovered that the organization is supposed to pay a payable expense of 938,493 cedis.
Addressing the GRA charge review, he said the end that the organization was not paying the appropriate expenses is problematic on the grounds that the overseers of the organization say they paid charges at source.
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