14,655 GH CEDIS FOR A REBRAND OF A BUS IS STILL OUTRAGEOUS

 14,655 GH CEDIS FOR A REBRAND OF A BUS IS STILL OUTRAGEOUS

Critical Thinkers International are happy about the recent concerns being expressed by Government and the general public on the 116 intra-city Metro Mass Transit buses which are meant for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) purposes saga.

Some of these concerns are;

1. The recent resignation by the Minister of Transportation, Hon. Dzifa Attivor.

2. The call by some Ghanaians on the Attorney General and Minister for Justice to prosecute Hon. Dzifa Attivor and Selassie Ibrahim, CEO of Smartyys Production and Management and wife of Ibrahim Adam, a former Minister for Agriculture under the Rawlings Administration.

3. The task of the Attorney General and Minister for Justice by Julius Debrah, the Chief of Staff to retrieve 1.9 million Ghana Cedis from Smartyys Production and Management

As we initially stated, we are happy but we also must say that we are not fully satisfied with some of the decisions especially our third point and below are our reasons for our dissatisfaction;

The order of the Attorney General by the Chief of Staff to retrieve only 1.9 million Ghana cedis as determined in the report as the excess payment made for the service rendered means 1.7 million Ghana Cedis is what is been determined by Government to have been used for the rebranding of all the buses after their investigation through the Attorney General's Department.

Critical Thinkers International find this very wrong and misleading.

Note, assuming the 1.7 million being quoted by the Government is right then it means each of the buses costed 14,655 Ghana Cedis, which is certainly very outrageous, impossible and also contrary to the claims by Kwaku Abeiku, the manager of Crystal Concept, the company which actually did the rebranding of the 116 buses.

According to Kweku Abeiku, they charged 1,000 Ghana Cedis for each bus and a total of 116,000 Ghana Cedis for all the buses, so where from this huge new rebranding cost from Government?

Meaning going by the exact rebranding cost as claimed by Kwaku Abeiku, Government will have to retrieve an additional 1.5 million Ghana Cedis aside the 1.9 million Ghana cedis to make a total of 3.4 million Ghana cedis from Smartyys Production and Management for Ghanaians

We believe 3.4 million Ghana cedis can do a lot to help the deprived in society and so, we hope the Government will heed to our just request for the sake and benefit of the many suffering in society.

Thank you and May God be praised always

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