Business News of Saturday, 4 April 2020Source: GNAMinority unhappy with replacement of GCNET, West Blue with UNIPASSA section of MinorityThe Minority in Parliament has questioned government‘s motive to replace the Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNET) and West Blue Consulting Limited with Ghana Link Network Services Limited and Customs UNIPAS International Agency (CUPIA)in the Ghana National Single Widow (GNSW) operations at the ports. Additionally, the Minority has also questioned government’s reason to sole-source the operations of GCNET and West Blue to Ghana Link/UNIPAS without regard to the proper procedures, sanctity of Contract and the fact GCNET is partially owned by the State. Mr Sulemana said the GCNET is a Public-Private Partnership in which the government of Ghana through its agencies holds 35 percent. For this stellar performance, GCNET and West Blue which are currently contracted till the end of 2023 and 2020, respectively, are paid a combined fee of 0.54 percent of Free on Board (FOB) i.e. Mr Sulemana said the Akufo-Addo administration after assuming office in 2017 has been bent on getting rid of GCNET and West Blue and replacing them with Ghana Link/UNIPAS.

Source: GhanaWeb April 04, 2020 15:56 UTC