Joy News investigation has revealed that the cost of 350 vehicles
procured in 2016 by the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) for
private transport operators cost the state over GHS18 million.
This is higher than the market price of the vehicles from the same supplier.
The vehicles were purchased for the Ghana Private Road Transport Union
(GPRTU) but the transport operators have rejected the vehicles because
of the alleged price inflation.
Manasseh Azure Awuni spent the last seven months investigating how various vehicles procured by the state have been grounded.
In the first of the series titled Grounded Wheels, Manasseh delved into
the reason the MASLOC vehicles are still parked since 2016.
The 350 vehicles are parked in the National Security yard behind the Accra International Conference Centre, in Accra.
Some of the salon cars have been completely covered with weeds. The
vehicles comprise 100 33-seater Isuzu buses, 100 Chevy Sparklite Salon
Cars and 150 Chevy Aveo salon cars.
MASLOC procured these vehicles in 2016 for the Ghana Private Road Transport Union but the Union has rejected them.
The Chief Executive Officer of MASLOC, Stephen Amoah, says the transport
union rejected the vehicles because they are overpriced.
As part of this investigation, Joy News went to the supplier of the
vehicles, Mac Autos and Spareparts Ghana Limited for quotations in
August 2018, two years after the company sold the vehicles to MASLOC.
From the company, the 2016 prices of the vehicle are lower than 2018
prices, but our investigation revealed that the cost at which the
company sold the vehicles to MASLOC in 2016 is far higher than the cost
at which it sold to the public in 2018.
For instance, Mac Ghana sold the 33-seater Izuzu bus to the general
public in 2018 at $79,000 but sold to MASLOC in 2016 at 107,000 dollars,
a difference of $28,000 dollars a bus.
The company sold the Chevy Sparklite salon cars in 2018 at $9000 but
sold to MASLOC at $12,500. In 2018, Mac had stopped selling Chevy Aveo
salon cars, but an August 2017 pro forma invoice from the company which
JoyNews obtained as part of this investigation quotes the price of each
Chevy Aveo vehicle at $14, 000.
However, the company supplied each of the 150 vehicles to Masloc at $18,000.
In all the cost of the vehicles sold to MASLOC is higher than the market
price of the vehicles by at least $3,750,000 or GHc 18,375,000.
Joy News made several attempts to get speak to the CEO of MASLOC who
signed the contract, Sedina Tamakloe Ationu, but we could not get her to
comment. When Joy News wrote to MAC Ghana for a response, the company
denied any wrongdoing. In a letter to Joy News, MAC Ghana said:
“The reasonable difference in prices of the vehicles sold to MASLOC and
the prices sold to the general public was due to the fact that it was
not paid upfront in cash, but over a period of two years, as such, an
interest was put on the price as is [the] custom in car purchases.”
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