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The 2020 Auditor General’s report cited the management of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) for breaking public procurement law.
According to the report, the GNPC signed and awarded five international trade contracts between 2015 and 2018 without the necessary parliamentary approval.
The report states that contrary to Section 181 (5) of the 1992 Constitution, the GNPC signed and awarded five international commercial contracts totaling US $ 34,165,235.15 and £ 464,963.13 to five foreign suppliers or contractors using the single source method in four of these transactions.
According to the report, in one case the GNPC used the restricted tendering method without seeking the necessary parliamentary approvals.
The report therefore recommended that the GNPC management be sanctioned in accordance with Article 92 of the 2003 Law on Public Procurement (Law 663) as amended for violation of the Law on Public Procurement.
According to the report, unlike Article 42 (1b) of the 2003 Public Procurement Law (Law 663) as amended, the GNPC used the Request for Quotation (RFQ) method for purchases of goods whose contract value exceeded the RFQ threshold. .
Thus, he urged the management to always respect the principles of the law on public procurement, and further demanded the sanction of officials (the general manager, the chief financial officer and the chief purchasing officer) who sanctioned the transactions in accordance with in article 92 of the law. 663 as amended.
“In May 2015, GNPC purchased desktops, laptops, geographic workstations, inverters and monitors for workstations from Perfect Business Systems through a single source agreement without obtaining the required approvals from the Council of the public procurement authority and the ministerial call for tenders. Review Board (MTRB), ”the report revealed.
Therefore, it recommended that the appropriate sanctions in accordance with Article 92 of the Public Procurement Law of 2003 (Law 663) as amended be imposed on the GNPC management for violation of the Public Procurement Law.
According to the Auditor General, in defiance of clauses 2 and 3 of article 187 of the 1992 Constitution as well as article 33 (1) of the 2000 law on audit services (law 584), his request for review of certain procurement related files and documents were not respected by GNPC management.
“We advised management to retrieve the affected document and forward it for our audit review. Otherwise, sanctions should be invoked against the management in accordance with article 98 of the law on the management of public finances of 2016, for financial indiscipline ”, warned the Auditor General.
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