{"id":351565,"date":"2017-09-07T15:48:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T15:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=351565"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:03:38","slug":"ssnit-scandal-other-corrupt-deals-identified-eoco-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=351565","title":{"rendered":"SSNIT scandal: Other corrupt deals identified – EOCO Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO), has given itself a week more, to conclude investigations into how the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) , spent a whopping $72 million on Operational Business Suite (OBS)\u00a0in a bid to digitize the Trust.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Executive Director of EOCO, K. K. Amoah, revealed this to Accra-based Peace FM, where he confirmed that his outfit had uncovered “some corrupt deals.”<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”i3qyXPZIokmk2TD4IfqoOgxSz2EYgcLR”]He said the crime office was looking to complete the investigation within seven days \u201cbecause this matter is of interest to a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

“As I speak to you, my men are still investigating some workers and officials of SSNIT. There is also a gentleman called Hagan we have interviewed. He was the Project Manager,”\u00a0Mr. Amoah noted in the interview.<\/p>\n

Among the instances of corruption, he said, “some items stated in the contract were not supplied. $34 million was set aside for the contract. It was bloated to about $72-73 million. We haven\u2019t completed with the investigations, but I believe the figures may go up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

SSNIT is being investigated by EOCO for blowing $72 million on procuring and installing a software and other hardware systems known as the Operational Business Suite in a bid to digitize the Trust.<\/p>\n

The cost, which was originally $34 million, later ballooned to $66 million and then to $72 million due to maintenance and additional infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The Board Chairman of SSNIT, Kwame Addo Kufuor, in an earlier interview with\u00a0Citi News<\/strong>,\u00a0said about 15 people had appeared before EOCO as witnesses in the matter.<\/p>\n

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SSNIT has also contracted PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct an audit into the contract.<\/p>\n

EOCO also raided the premises of Perfect Business Systems (PBS), the IT firm which executed the\u00a0$72 million project<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Perfect Business Systems, a local IT company, partnered Silverlake consortium, a Malaysian firm, to install and procure the software and hardware systems for the suite.<\/p>\n

SSNIT’s General Manager in charge of Management Information Systems (MIS), Caleb Afaglo, was also sacked for securing the job with fake degrees after he had been investigated by EOCO.<\/p>\n

It is suspected that his questionable qualifications\u00a0contributed to failings within the Trust that led to the contract award with its attendant expenditure overruns.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Zoe Abu-Baidoo\/Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO), has given itself a week more, to conclude investigations into how the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) , spent a whopping $72 million on Operational Business Suite (OBS)\u00a0in a bid to digitize the Trust. The\u00a0Executive Director of EOCO, K. K. Amoah, revealed this to Accra-based Peace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[372,3,326],"class_list":["post-351565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-eoco","tag-ghana-news","tag-ssnit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351565","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}