The government cancels the contracts of private companies coldstore

General News on Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-04-17

Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, Minister of Fisheries Development and Aquaculture, said the government would cancel the contracts of private managers of the six cold stores and ice-making factories built by the previous administration for mismanagement.

At a press conference on Tuesday, the minister said the contracts had been awarded to private companies and had agreed with the department to pay part of the money, but companies did not. had not done.

She explained that they attributed their failure to pay high electricity rates, which swept their profits.

After a meeting with the ministry, she said that they had called on the Ministry of Energy to reduce tariffs on cold stores.

Ms. Quaye said that the Ministry of Fisheries Development and Aquaculture, after hiring the Ministry of Energy, realized that the cold stores were not well managed and that he wrote to the Attorney General's Department for the cancellation of managers' contracts.

According to her, the Attorney General stated that once companies had broken the contract by not paying, the department had the right to terminate their contract and retain the facilities for the state.