Parliamentary Committee to meet GWCL over tussle with SOFTtribe today

The Works and Housing Committee of Parliament is billed to meet officials of the Ghana Water Company Limited over its standoff with software developer, SOFTtribe.

The Committee says it may also meet with the other party[ SOFTtribe] later but wants to learn at first hand from the side of GWCL the issues that led to the termination of SOFTtribe’s contract and the subsequent raid at the offices of the Software development firm.

“For now, we want to meet with the Ghana Water Company to really understand what is going on. And then from there if there is a need for us to meet with SOFTtribe we will meet them as well,” Ranking Member of the Committee, Emmanuel Bedzrah stated.

It’s expected that the parliamentary intervention will end what has become a national security concern.

The Ghana Water Company Limited has said that its decision to terminate its contract with local IT firm, SOFTtribe Limited was in the national interest.

According to GWCL, the termination was long overdue due to the many challenges SOFTtribe’s e-billing system was fraught with.

National Security Operatives conducted an operation to secure databases belonging to the Ghana Water Company Limited, GWCL from an Accra based IT firm, Softtribe.

The operation which followed a complaint by the Ghana Water Company to National Security was to safeguard the databases access to which had been deliberately blocked by the company.

National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, in a facebook post, condemned the raid describing it as reckless and Rambo style invasion.

“Regardless of what disagreements may exist between SOFTtribe and the Ghana Water Company Limited, the forceful entry into their offices by armed National Security operatives is unacceptable.”