According to the Minority, the contract was awarded by the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako-Atta, without parliamentary approval but under the cloak of approval by the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) adding that the Minister breached Article 1815 which required that all international business and economic transactions be ratified by Parliament.
"The process leading to the selection of the contractor is what we have always cautioned the government against. If the government decides that the PPP process would not work and they still needed a developer and Mota-Engil’s has failed and cannot raise the funds, Mota Ingil’s is an international company and it falls directly under article 1815," Governs Kwame Agbodza, Ranking Member of the Roads and Transport Committee of Parliament has said.
The contract was signed between the government of Ghana and the South African firm, Mota – Engil.
The deal is for the expansion of the Accra-Tema Motorway into both three-lane and two-lane stretches.