According to him, the ongoing investigations into the new prepaid meters had shown that the five companies, which he declined to mention, didn’t have engineers and expertise to ascertain the meters were without any form of blemish before the procurement was made.
Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Hon. Joe Appiah pointed out that Parliament is finding out more about details of the agreement, and how the five companies through sole-sourcing, got the contract to supply the country with the new prepaid meters which many believe is a contributing factor to the unbearable hike in electricity bills recently.
“Five companies were mentioned in bringing the new prepaid meters, and they are linked to the President and so we are finding out and we will make Ghanaians know the outcome of it because this work should have been given to engineers who are experts in the prepaid meters and not to some ordinary sole-sourcing or used his political power to accord contracts to just anybody,” he asserted.
He emphasized that the Procurement Act of the country must work effectively, maintaining that the billing software is absolutely beyond the bounds of human reasoning. “We don’t agree with the billing software; in a nutshell, it is a very bad energy policy on behalf of government because the government wants to sell ECG but we won’t allow it. Selling part of ECG to a private company will not help us. In conclusion, they lack planning and focus," Hon Joe Appiah maintained.
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