\u201cGETFund contractors do not agree with what the President said. It\u2019s not true that GETFund has paid even one-fourth of what the President said. For that reason we disagree with what the President said. The Ministry of Finance is supposed to give money to GETFund to pay contractors. As I speak, since July 2016 till date, those that have placed their claims to GETFund have not received their payments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to him, the government, when it first assumed office in January 2018, made a few payments to contractors, but the negligible amounts released at the time failed to cover the 800 million cedis owed them.<\/p>\n
\u201c GETFund contractors are expecting almost 800 million out of the 1.6 million, and since 2016, there are some claims that have not been catered for. When the new administration came into office, they made three payments. They selected a few [of the claims] \u2013 the 50, 000 15, 000, 20, 000 \u2013 many of those were paid leaving the huge ones. I can say with all confidence that a few contractors were paid but majority of them were not,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n
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\u2018Sad day for contractors<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n Daniel Tanoh stated that, since the President announced that the contractors had been paid, they had come under intense pressure from creditors who were also demanding payment.<\/p>\n He added that they had written to the management of GETFund for a meeting to discuss how best to resolve their challenges.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter what the President said, we\u2019ve started receiving calls from our creditors. If the President is saying they have paid contractors, then why are we not paying those we owe.? Today is a very sad day for contractors. We are not happy,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have presented a notice to the administrator of GETFund that on Tuesday January 23 at 10:00 am, the leadership of the GETFund contractors will be meeting him to see the way forward as to how our payment issues will go. If GETFund were not owing contractors, I don\u2019t think we\u2019d have such letters.\u201d<\/p>\n – Some contractors working on projects for the Ghana Education Trust Fund [GETFund], have disputed the claims by President Akufo-Addo that the government has paid more than half of the 1.6 billion cedis owed contractors in the country. According to them, despite being entitled to about 800 million cedis of the total debt owed contractors, most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":392752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[6987,16218,3,156],"yoast_head":"\n
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