President Akufo-Addo
The Association of Conscientious Public Sector Contractors (ACPSC) has expressed worry over their unpaid monies for construction projects executed since 2016 under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.
Addressing the press in Accra, Bernard Azuma, National Chairman for ACPSC said not a single day passes without members of the association visiting the secretariat of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to check on the status of their pending money.
He noted: “But the constant response we get from the Trust is ‘there is no money’, whiles some contractors whose certificate emanated from current contracts like 2017 and 2018 are being gleefully paid.”
According to him, this situation has taken a devastating toll on members especially those who took loans from Banks and suppliers to execute their contracts.
He said: ‘‘The least said about the number of our members who have taken ill and died as a result of the relentless pressures from their creditors, the better’’.
Mr. Azuma stated that they feel isolated due to the selective payment and ‘nauseating’ preferential treatment given to some contractors at the GETFund Secretariat.
He indicated that if GETFund did not take urgent measures to address their problems, they would resolve to use every constitutional means available to have their monies paid.
He added: ‘‘If our passionate appeal goes unheeded and there is no clear-cut step taken to pay us within two weeks, beginning on 5th July, 2018 to the 19th of July 2018, we will hit the street with massive demonstration; simultaneously we will advise our lawyers to proceed to the courts’’.
He, therefore, pleaded with President Akufo-Addo, to as a matter of urgency, use his good office to facilitate the payment of their long-overdue certificates.
BY: Maame Anima Akowuah