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[Manasseh Azure Awuni @Manasseh_Azure]

TEN FACTS ABOUT THIS DEAL WILL SHOCK YOU
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Fact One: All the 11 companies handpicked for the contract in this document belong to the Jospong Group, owned by Joseph Siaw Agyepong.

Fact Two: All the districts in which the fumigation and disinfection exercise was to be carried out in this contract were already covered by two separate fumigation contracts that had been running continuously since 2009 and 2010.

Fact Three: The two existing fumigation contracts were being carried out by Zoomlion and paid from the District Assemblies Common Fund and the National Health Insurance Levy.

Fact Four: Zoomlion, a subsidiary of the Jospong Group, already had two separate fumigation contracts covering all assemblies in Ghana, but the Local Government Ministry awarded a third fumigation contract to Zoomlion and the Jospong Group to carry out a third fumigation exercise in the same assemblies already covered.

Fact Five: Meridian Waste Management Limited, which is listed as Number 10 of this document, was registered on September 30, 2015, but it got this contract in June 2015. I got the registration documents during my investigation. The General Manager of the company told the police CID that the company was not registered. The CID got a confirmation from the Registrar General's Department.

Fact Six: The former Attorney-General, Gloria Akuffo, asked me to help the Financial Intelligence Unit of the CID to investigate this scandal after my "Robbing the Assemblies" documentary, so I saw the evidence and the responses Zoomlion and the Ministry brought forward. No government official, from the ministry or the assembly, could attest that the work was carried out. But Zoomlion was paid.

Fact Seven: When Zoomlion was asked to name any government official who witnessed or supervised the execution of the contract's execution, the company, through its lawyers, did not name anybody. It only explained that the contract did not require them to be supervised.

Fact Eight: When the police investigators travelled across the country, assembly and sanitation officials from the districts where the contract was supposed to be executed said they did not know about the contract or its execution.

Fact Nine: Zoomlion's evidence of work consisted of some black-and-white photos of people undertaking fumigations, which could have been photos taken by Zoomlion from their two existing fumigation and disinfection contracts. In some of the photos I helped the police analyse, the same photo could be found in different districts as evidence of work carried out there.

This is just one instance of how the NDC and NPP officials connive with Zoomlion and its sister companies to dissipate resources while our country is engulfed in filth. Writing about these disturbing deals doesn't mean one hates Zoomlion or wants to destroy local businesses. Protecting local companies should not mean supporting fraud.

During my investigation, I uncovered the following dubious deals involving Zoomlion and the Jospong Group:

1. A fumigation contract covering all the assemblies, awarded by the Ministry of Health and paid from the National Health Insurance Levy.

2. A fumigation contract covering all the assemblies in Ghana and paid from the District Assemblies Common Fund

3. Fumigation contracts to Zoomlion and 10 Jospong subsidiaries awarded by the Ministry of Local Government and paid from the District Assemblies Common Fund.

4. A contract to sweep the streets and markets of the assemblies, awarded by the Youth Employment Agency and paid from the District Assemblies Common Fund. (This is the contract that Zoomlion is paid 850 cedis per sweeper, and the company pays the sweepers 250 cedis and keeps the remaining as management fees.)

5. After the sweepers finish cleaning the markets, Zoomlion has a separate contract with the assemblies to dispose of the refuse. This contract is called the Sanitation Improvement Package (SIP). The money is deducted at source and paid from the assemblies' share of the District Assemblies Common Fund.

6. I also discovered that Zoomlion's sister company, Waste Landfills Management Limited, had contracts with the assemblies to manage the disposal sites.

7. Zoomlion was awarded another contract to manage what it called Sanitation Guards. These were the sanitary inspectors (Nsamansaman), the assemblies used to enforce their bylaws. So, if the nsanmansaman concept has died, it is because the government gave that role to Zoomlion as well.

8. Zoomlion has a plethora of contracts with the government of Ghana for sanitation management, such as the recycling plants the company purports to run.

This means that the district assemblies' waste management departments don't have the resources to work. All the resources are given to Zoomlion. Even if Zoomlion does not clean, the company is still paid at source.

[SCOTT BOLSHEVIK @scottbolshevik]

Cheddar laid out a visionary plan: 8,000km rail, 100-yr reserves, blockchain governance, SSNIT reform, nuclear energy a roadmap for Ghana in the 4IR era.

Yet, many Ghanaians ignored it. Hopefully H.E. Mahama, may draw some inspiration from such bold, futuristic ideas.

[Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor @barkervogues]

1. So the Minerals Commission, by press statement, now admits that Akonta Mining’s three leases were never ratified by Parliament — and that it operated without a single environmental permit?

2. After all these years of complaints, protests, media reports, and petitions — they’re only now finding their voice? They knew all along and chose to stay silent. No action. No sanctions. Just bureaucratic indifference cloaked in press releases.

3. This is precisely why I say that focusing on third parties while leaving the people at these institutions untouched is a complete waste of time. The real rot is within the system.

4. Ghana is suffering not just from corrupt politicians, but from spineless bureaucrats — people who collect salaries, enjoy perks, accept bribes, and then look the other way while the nation burns.

5. From the Environmental Protection Agency to the Forestry Commission to the Minerals Commission — you have collectively disgraced yourselves. You have betrayed the public trust. And you have let this country down.

6. You don’t get to pretend to be shocked now. You were the enablers. You are complicit.

7. We don’t need another committee. We need consequences. Real accountability. And a purge of the institutions that have made it their business to protect criminals instead of the environment.

8. Ghana deserves better. DRAIN THE SWAMP. RESET

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Yellow fever sweeps the City of Dunkwa; A colorful celebration: 6th March

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@scottbolshevik They think we're dumb . It's about time some heads start rolling

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[Elite Carsgasm @Elitecargasm]

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[KALYJAY @gyaigyimii]

Watch this and tell me you are not sad being a Ghanaian?

[Mempeasem President @AsieduMends]

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[Listowel Mensah, MBA @Listo_Mens]

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