Contractors accuse MMDCEs of telling ministers lies about ongoing projects

Some contractors, who are executing various automated modern toilet facilities across the country for Ghana First Company Limited under a Public-Private Partnership with Government of Ghana, are calling for a forensic audit into the whole exercise.

Dominic Oppong Tawiah, who is one of the contractors, in an interview said the various Assemblies are not treating them well.

According to the CEO of Dominic Oppong Tawiah, some of his colleagues have started receiving dividends from 2018. He added that some of them have loans they have failed to pay back. In addition, Mr Dominic Oppong Tawiah added that some of his colleagues paid upfronts to the Assemblies after their lands were designated to them to commence construction.

The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana First, Mr Frank AKulley, said the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) for the areas are not reporting the realities on the ground to the sector ministers.

“The Chief Executives are not telling the ministers the truth,” he alleged.

"It has been stated in the contract that they are supposed to give us the land title so that we give it to our financiers to use it as collateral. Since 2017 that we signed an agreement that the Assemblies will give us the land titles, till date there hasn't been any single one that has given out the land title," Mr Frank AKulley said.