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Police get more vehicles
The minister said the vehicles were acquired for a total amount of $8.8 million, after negotiating the previous administration's contracts.
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Government said it has acquired 100 Toyota Corolla vehicles worth $8.8 million for the police service.
According to Mustapha Hamid, Information Minister, government has decided to retool the police service after reducing the number of VIP vehicles ordered by the Mahama administration from 43 to 34.
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"We have renegotiated the terms of the contract in the following manner; "We have reduced the number of vehicles ordered from 43 to 34, which is nine short of the original number.
"In place of the nine, we have acquired 100 Toyota Corolla cars for use by the Police Service in line with our commitment to retool the Police Service to enable them play effectively, their role of protecting the Ghanaian people.
"We have done all this with a total amount of $8.8 million."
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He said "This decision is consistent with our approach towards contracts that we came to meet, where if possible, we have renegotiated the terms to make them more favourable to the Ghanaian people.
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"In the Ministry of Education for example, we renegotiated the cost of printing textbooks, which the former government had signed with printers. Instead of 134 million cedis, we renegotiated downwards to 89 million cedis. It is in this same spirt that the Finance Minister asked the Auditor General to audit the financial liabilities that had been bequeathed to us, and which has revealed that some 5.4 billion cedis of legacy debts are dodgy."
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