The government ignored several concerns about the PDS – Minority deal

General News on Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-07-31

The minority in Parliament referred to extensive investigations into the operations of Power Distribution Services Limited (PDS).

According to Adams Mutawakilu, spokesperson for minorities in the Committee on Mining and Energy, the government has been unfair to Ghanaians by failing to address the concerns previously expressed about the agreement.

This comes after the government announced the suspension of the concession agreement with PDS after the discovery of fundamental and material breaches of the obligation to provide payment securities.

In an interview with Citi News, Adam Mutawakilu said the government should have been more diligent before signing the deal with PDS, saying that the documents submitted by PDS before the signing of the agreement, said the report. agreement were not authentic.

Mr. Adam Mutawakilu also accused the government of not sticking to the aspects of the agreement approved by Parliament.

"The minority raised questions about the same guarantee or security and insisted that the PDS was supposed to have provided the correct document before the ECG badets were handed over. On several occasions, we called the government that the PDS did not provide the correct documents and that they were paper documents that were not backed up in cash and cash … "

"The government had to wait for all this before saying that it had done its due diligence.The government has not been fair to the people of Ghana by not sticking to that." Parliament had approved and modified it to adapt to the PDS. "

The MP for Damongo also argued that the government's decision to abandon the agreement could have disastrous consequences for the country on the international front in the future.

He also accused some government officials of circumventing the agreed commitment rule for the concession deal.

"We believe that the suspension of the PDS goes beyond the provision of the guarantor … We have information about the alleged people who come before us and the agreements we have concluded as challenges and in the next few days, we will reveal the truth. "

"The government's inconsistencies with the concession will cast a bad image of Ghana on the international community, but I still maintain that doing what was right should have been done long ago."

We acted in good faith when implementing the Energy Concession Agreement – PDS

The Energy Distribution Service (PDS) has denied committing a wrongdoing in its dealership deal with the government through the Ministry of Finance.

The company, in a statement following the announcement by the government of an immediate suspension of the agreement due to the discovery of wrongdoing on the part of PDS, said that she "wishes to declare publicly that she has always acted and will continue to act in good faith." time."

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said in a statement on Tuesday that the PDS concession deal was suspended after the government discovered certain violations of the company's obligation to provide payment guarantees.