{"id":278039,"date":"2016-12-19T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=278039"},"modified":"2016-12-19T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:58:08","slug":"mahama-ayariga-defends-last-minute-e18m-e-waste-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=278039","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Ayariga defends \u2018last minute\u2019 \u20ac18m e-waste contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga has defended the government&#8217;s decision to sign a new waste management contract worth\u00a0 \u20ac18 million days after his party\u2019s defeat in the December 7 polls.<\/p>\n<p>According to the outgoing Minister, he took the decision because it was duly forwarded to the Public Procurement Authority for approval before the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn application was pending before the election and I duly forwarded it to the PPA for approval before the elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister is said to have signed a new contract with SCL Waste Management Limited to recycle e-waste in the country despite putting efforts in place to hand over power to the New Patriotic Party government.<\/p>\n<p>This follows concerns raised by the NPP\u2019s transition team about some supposed <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/14\/osarfo-marfo-alarmed-over-last-minute-contracts-recruitments\/\"><strong>last minute contracts<\/strong><\/a><\/span> being awarded by the outgoing NDC government.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Ayariga on his Facebook page explained that \u201cthe cost of project is entirely borne by the applicant and they said it will cost them \u20ac18 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana must have e-waste recycling capacity to solve problems such what we have at Abglogoshi and other sites,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full post:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-278040 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mahama-ayariga.png\" alt=\"mahama-ayariga\" width=\"587\" height=\"501\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga has defended the government&#8217;s decision to sign a new waste management contract worth\u00a0 \u20ac18 million days after his party\u2019s defeat in the December 7 polls. According to the outgoing Minister, he took the decision because it was duly forwarded to the Public Procurement Authority for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":220566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[3,14381,792],"class_list":["post-278039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-last-minute-contract","tag-mahama-ayariga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}