Millions gone. Zero results. Ghana’s telecom contracts under scrutiny.

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]I want to get something clear. Sure. The software of 10.93 million Yes.

[00:00:06]We don't have any evidence of the company providing it to the ministry even though 10.93 million had been paid to the company. I met with the company. I summoned the company from Israel when I became minister. Okay. And demanded to see work that had been done.

[00:00:25]They said they had done a baseline study and that they were waiting for additional payment before they go into the development phase. Minister, do you have a copy of the contract? And what does the contract say in respect of payments to this? And minister, those who facilitated the payments to that tune, what did they see to warrant that amount of payment? What invoices, what actual actuals did they receive or were they given to enable them push 10.93 million to the company?

[00:01:05]Madam Chair, This evidence should should should be at the ministry. Clearly, if these amounts have been paid.

[00:01:11]Madam Chair, getting the documentation has been like threading a threading a needle.

[00:01:20]My chief director who sits here was director of finance at the time.

[00:01:24]A lot of the documentation ended up only at the minister's office.

[00:01:28]Didn't even go down to the chief director's office.

[00:01:31]The cyber security authority has absolutely no documentation whatsoever.

[00:01:36]We've managed to pull a number of documents which we can make available to this committee. But Madam Chair, to answer the specific question of what was seen before the 10.9 was paid, I would have said you and I were not there. I wasn't there, but you were there. You were the finance ministry.

[00:01:52]But it may not have come to you directly, but it was paid. Did they say did the audit say that this payment came um came from the finance ministry.

[00:02:00]>> Yes, it was paid from finance. No, in this Did they say the payment came from the finance ministry?

[00:02:05]>> This audit did not deal with the 10.9 that has been paid already.

[00:02:09]>> Aha. So, Minister, I mean, let's let's let's be devoid of politics and everything. This is a very serious issue. Sure.

[00:02:16]>> And I want to get to the bottom of it.

[00:02:17]>> Sure. I was at the Ministry of Finance.

[00:02:20]This payment