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Ignore Bawumia, he is still in campaign mood - Avedzi
According to him, it is regrettable that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia would still be stuck in "a campaign mood" and in effect come out with such claims.
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"I can tell you that even if the amount mentioned to the Vice President was $3million, he would have said the same thing."
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"His problem, I pity him, is that he is still in a campaign mood. He is not aware that he is now the Vice President. He's now in the driving chair, let's leave it to him to do. He should know that he is now the Vice President and I wish him well that he builds that house probably with GHS10,000.
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"It's like he is on a campaign platform blaming the previous administration, 'so vote for me'. The people have voted for you already so forget about that, now the reality is dawning on him so he should face the music," the Ketu North MP said on Accra-based Starr FM.
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Speaking at a Good Corporate Governance Initiative event at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra on Tuesday, 31 January, Dr Bawumia said he was "shocked" when he was told of the price for the house, which, in his view, was "most likely sole-sourced".
He believed it was important to strictly enforce the Public Procurement Act so as to avoid such blatant abuse of the Act to safeguard the taxpayers' purse.
"Very importantly, we want to ensure the strict enforcement of the Public Procurement Act, Act 663; it is an Act that in my opinion and in the opinion of many, has really been abused recently, the resort to sole-sourcing of contracts has been more the rule rather than the exception,” Dr Bawumia said.
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"The way the Act was designed, sole-sourcing was not supposed to be as rampant as we are seeing it today and I think that we will have to enforce this Public Procurement Act.
"I'll give you one example which I found out recently: there was this brouhaha about the vice president's residence, I'm sure you heard about that, so in the context of discussing this issue, there's supposed to be a vice president's residence under construction, official, so to speak, so, I asked the question: why is this project being delayed, why hasn't it been finished? And they said: 'Well, the contractor is owed a lot of money.' I said: 'Well how much is this money?' And then I'm told it is actually a lot of money. How much is this house actually costing? And I was shocked when I was told.
"Can you believe in Ghana we are building a house to house our vice president and this house is supposed to cost $13.9million? I mean what sort of house is this supposed to be? I mean, is the gate made of gold, the pavement of gold, the blocks of gold? [A] house in Ghana for 13.9 million dollars? I couldn’t believe it. How many boreholes couldn't we have done?” he lamented.
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