Ghadafi Saibu

[Haruna Iddrisu @iharunaiddrisu]

My sincere appreciation to President John Dramani Mahama .@JDMahama for nominating me as the Minister of Education Designate

[Ghadafi Saibu @gimberga]

Dr. Ghadafi Saibu writes: Walking Ghana into Kenya 2007, What EC and international stakeholders of elections should know! - MyJoyOnline https://t.co/OYFEXgZ9l4

[Beatrice Annan @Beatrice_Annan1]

#JohnMahama has a number of policies. Find below just 10 of them;

1. 24 Hour Economy Policy
2. ⁠National Apprenticeship Program
3. Women’s Development Bank
4. ⁠One million coders program
5. ⁠Cancel ex gratia and appoint only 60 Ministers
5. ⁠Establish a $50 million growth fund for fintechs
6. ⁠Establish Farmer Service Centers across the country
7. ⁠Empower district mining officers to fight illegal mining and ensure no appointee goes into mining
8. ⁠The Big Push Infrastructural plan
9. ⁠Complete abandoned projects
10. ⁠Construct 6 new universities in the new regions

The man with a track record can do this ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️

[Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa @S_OkudzetoAblak]

Akufo-Addo’s Ambulance Scandal — My Response to Service Ghana Auto Group Limited’s Statement

My attention has been drawn to a preposterous and most offensive statement from the discredited Service Ghana Auto Group Limited.

Even though none of the directors of Service Ghana Auto Group Limited could muster the courage to boldly put a name to their statement, I deem it necessary in the interest of public accountability to respond as follows:

1. I strongly condemn the use of threats by Service Ghana Auto Group Limited and their disgusting attempt to gag Ghanaians, particularly Members of Parliament and the media.

2. This ill-advised strategy to use naked threats to prevent parliamentary scrutiny, media discussions and the legitimate demand of accountability from patriotic Ghanaians who have every right to know what a colossal US$108million of our taxes are being used for under this opaque ambulance transaction is a strategy bound to fail. SGAGL is well advised to desist from issuing empty and pathetic threats as nothing will stop our democratic and patriotic resolve in the spirit of transparency, probity and media freedoms — which are all guaranteed under the 1992 Constitution, to demand full accountability in this matter. We cannot be intimidated by their bogus threats.

3. Service Ghana Auto Group Limited’s statement deliberately failed to respond to the politically exposed status of a key director, Stephen Okoro who is not only a close business partner of the President’s daughters, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo and Edwina Akufo-Addo as irrefutably demonstrated with official incorporation documents of SFO Initiatives Limited, Goodbox Limited and Good Grow Limited; SGAGL was also disingenuously silent on Stephen Okoro’s familial ties with the presidential family having fathered a grandchild of the President with the President’s daughter. Politically exposed persons always come under greater scrutiny in the fight against corruption as they can unduly influence procurement processes, abuse due process and orchestrate unconscionable payment terms in their favour, as we have seen in this transaction.

4. From the statement of Service Ghana Auto Group Limited, it purportedly participated in a competitive procurement process by the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives from 15th November, 2018 as a consortium of 7 companies. Instructively, this consortium could not have existed in 2018 and 2019 as unimpeachable records at the Registrar of Companies reveal that Service Ghana Auto Group Limited was incorporated much later, specifically on April 24, 2020.

5. Claims by SGAGL that it’s a consortium which leveraged the expertise and resources of its companies in procurement of ambulances is most laughable and ridiculous. Incorporation records show that at least 5 of the 7 companies were hurriedly incorporated between April and September 2017. None of the companies had any expertise or track record in procuring and servicing ambulances. The evidence speaks for itself: BEFT engineering was incorporated on April 20, 2017 primarily to carry out construction, renovation, civil engineering works and electrical engineering works; Elok Consult was incorporated on July 25, 2017 to carry out management consultancy, civil works, roads and building construction; Prestige Era Company Limited was incorporated on April 19, 2017 with its objects being to carry out general supply, road and building construction, oil and gas products dealer, transport and haulage. None of these companies had expertise in ambulance procurement and after-sales maintenance. This must explain why the Auditor-General exposed SGAGL for using staff of the National Ambulance Service for their maintenance contract.

6. Service Ghana Auto Group Limited peddled another blatant falsehood when it claimed that companies in its so-called consortium put in a bid at US$133,000 per ambulance.

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

Ghana's Veep is being mocked by his opponents for promising a "1 Cedi, 2 Cedi" phones-for-the-poor credit scheme. His supporters say detractors lack vision. But who is quietly laughing all the way to the bank. The Blay family, that's who.
😊😂

https://t.co/45RkPhmt86

[Ghadafi Saibu @gimberga]

https://t.co/0aif6eSnvd

[Gabrielle Lynch @GabrielleLynch6]

Really pleased that my first research methods paper - Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space - is out open access in Qualitative Research. Thanks to everyone who gave comments and who's driven around with me! https://t.co/KsL1KhmtYY

[Ghadafi Saibu @gimberga]

@DKyereko @FaasDaniel @CERJournal Congratulations, Danny!

[African Newspage @AfricanNewspage]

#COP28 : IDOS calls for increased financing to mitigate climate change impacts

@IDOS_research, a leading global think-tank for sustainable development, has called for increased climate financing to help developing countries affected by climate change meet up with their financing requirements to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

@AnnaK_Hornidge @gimberga @COP28_UAE

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[Ghadafi Saibu @gimberga]

Afrika braucht Demokratien, die den Namen wert sind: https://t.co/ULMm2OBPW8 via @Africa_Table

[ASR @ASRJournal]

The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa by @Fromagehomme, @GabrielleLynch6, & Justin Willis provides "a refreshingly nuanced explanation for the frenzy of activity—and the sheer amount of resources—that goes into African elections," writes @acrowinghen.

https://t.co/GGxhJElLbn

[Ghadafi Saibu @gimberga]

@amirahelhaddad Thanks, Amirah 👏

[African Newspage @AfricanNewspage]

OP-ED | Africa’s Recent Coups and What International Democracy Stakeholders Should Understand, By Ghadafi Saibu

@gimberga call on international democratic stakeholders to facilitate the deepening of democratic procedures beyond elections, decrying the current approach of accepting African countries’ long-term electoral autocracies that have long packaged themselves as democracies @IDOS_research

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[Nic Cheeseman @Fromagehomme]

Liberia goes to the polls today in the presidential run off.

The election is on a knife edge after a tight first round.

Check out our great discussion with a brilliant panel via the link below.

#LiberiaDecides2023
#Liberia

[Ghadafi Saibu @gimberga]

@Fromagehomme @Ju_Lein @HenrikMaihack @HenningMelber @M_Philani @SolveigRichter @edp_network @JWPaller Thanks!