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Occupy Ghana releases 'bus branding contract'

Leading member of the group, Mr. Ace Ankomah published the one page contract on his Facebook wall today.

 

The group sued the AG, demanding that the contract surrounding the branding be made public.

The AG contested it but a Human Rights Court ruled that the document be made public since it is of public interest.

"We know that with contracts, length or size has nothing to do with it (all naughty puns excluded)," he said.

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He noted that the document "is scandalous and insulting to Ghanaians that the entire Smartty's 'Contract', when it finally came to be signed, was effectively just a-ONE-PAGE document.""And when one takes out the puffs and fluffs on that page, the only terms are captured in six (6) lines!""The second page was for signatures, and then some 5 or so pages of useless documents generated by Smartty's were added to pad and beef it up," he said."Yes, almost $1m of your money was being frittered away in an illegal sweetheart transaction with the yet-undenied endorsement of the Office of the President (the same Office of the President that ordered the investigation and does not have the courage, spine to publish the AG's report), and they didn't even bother to get a first-year lawyer to write a half-decent contract.""Worse, the Minister DID NOT SIGN THE CONTRACT."

The branding initially cost GHC3.6 million but upon a review, Smarttys management and production, the company at the centre of saga, was made to refund GHC1.5 million.

Then minister of road and transport, Gzifa Attivor, resigned from her position after the matter became public.

In her most recent comments, she asked Voltarians to vote for the ruling party because a change of government to the opposition New Patriotic Party could land her in jail.

She was widely slammed for the comments.

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