Bar Companies Securing Judgement Debts Against Ghana From Bidding For Government Contracts

The outrageous and shabby story of how Latex Foam was allowed to secure  a  judgement debt of some Gh¢207,356.62 (on October 26, 2009), because the Attorney General's Department failed to contest the case, even  though no formal contract existed between the company  and the Ghana@50 Planning Committee, illustrates perfectly, how the carelessness of  much of officialdom  has permitted the Republic of Ghana to be ripped-off  by sundry  private-sector entities,  with complete  impunity,  for decades since the overthrow of President Nkrumah in 1966.


To compound the outrage, in that particular instance of the manipulation of the legal system to milk Mother Ghana dry  -  by a clever and well-connected few,  who  secured a judgement debt of dubious provenance -  there was no competitive bidding for the supply of those confounded mattresses to  the Ghana@50 Planning Committee.


What commercial entity,  underpinned by corporate good governance principles, and run by individuals of good conscience, would go to court, knowing full well  that it delivered part of the order for mattresses to the Ghana@50 Planning Committee, long after the VIP guests invited to attend the 50th Independence Day anniversary  celebrations - who were to sleep on those apparently tailor-made  mattresses -  had departed our shores, I ask?


The time has now  come for  all our politicians to agree that companies  securing judgement debts against the Republic of Ghana,  under dubious circumstances, will be blacklisted,   and barred from bidding for government contracts, in perpetuity.


Why should such businesses be given yet more of  taxpayers' money,  when once upon a time they demanded their pound of flesh in ruthless fashion,  without any consideration  for the dire economic situation facing the nation, by securing judgement debts against the Republic of Ghana, and under  dubious circumstances?


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