The prison typhoon surrounding the alleged US$2 million overpayment and monetary irregularities within the District Roads Improvement Programme (DRIP) contract has intensified, with the Attorney-General (A-G) and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, saying he’s ready to make use of the courts to put in force duty.

Dr. Ayine’s defiance is available in direct reaction to a complete rebuttal issued via the contracting business, J.A. Plant Pool (JAPP) Limited, which brushed aside the AG’s claims of overpayment, tax evasion, and over-invoicing as “unlucky”.

JAPP had previous issued an in depth commentary in an try to transparent its identify, specifically addressing the contentious factor of the alleged overpayment.

The corporation attributed all the reported US$2 million extra fee to a easy clerical error in reliable documentation.

JAPP asserted that the carried out contract sum was once considerably upper than the determine cited within the AG’s allegations, claiming the right kind price was once US$178,704,739.50, no longer the decrease US$176 million determine discussed via Dr. Ayine.

The business argued that the AG was once presenting a “partial narrative” that might reason irreparable harm to its recognition.

The corporation additional rejected all different claims:

• Tax Evasion: JAPP said that every one imports associated with the DRIP contract had been correctly declared to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and processed thru government-approved bonded warehouses, thus disregarding any statement of tax evasion.
• Over-Invoicing: The business maintained that the contract costs had been the results of a competitively negotiated procedure and represented authentic price for cash for the state.

Despite JAPP’s public defence, Dr. Ayine stays resolute.

Speaking in an interview on Friday, October 24, the Attorney General reaffirmed his preliminary place, declaring his administrative center possesses conclusive proof of the monetary breaches.

“We have investigated and we have now the proof. If they [JA Plant Pool] are making that declare, we’ll pop out with the reality,” Dr. Ayine declared.

The Minister for Justice emphasized that he’s able to take the fight to the Judicial Service to retrieve any price range deemed to had been improperly paid or embezzled, signalling a significant prison disagreement.

“What I stated, I stand via, and in the event that they need to problem it, they may be able to accomplish that. If they don’t seem to be conforming to the call for that I’ve made, I’ve the courts to lend a hand me to take action,” he warned.

The standoff puts each the A-G’s investigative findings and JAPP’s monetary data underneath intense public scrutiny, with the looming danger of a high-profile civil swimsuit set to resolve without equal fact in the back of the multi-million-dollar street development contract.

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