
Audio By Carbonatix
The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Telecoms Chamber is convinced Subah is either "irredeemably incompetent" or "fatally fraudulent" if the company still insists it monitored telcos to check their revenue inflows to help verify if they are paying the right taxes.
Kweku Sakyi Addo believes the Committee’s report exonerating Subah InfoSolutions from wrongdoing was prepared without the informed input of the Chamber.
The Subah saga is a story of how the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) entered into a contract with Subah InfoSolutions to do electronic monitoring of mobile networks to confirm whether they are being truthful in declaring all their taxes.
Under the contract, Subah was supposed to connect to the physical nodes of the telecom companies to monitor revenues that are supposed to be paid by the telcos, but this was not done.
But it was revealed that Subah InfoSolutions did not do this work and bagged GHc74 million from 2010-2012.
However, a 14-member committee set up by the Ministry of Finance to investigate the deal branded fraudulent said there was nothing wrong with the contract and rejected calls for it to be abrogated. But it work has been heavily criticized as being shoddy.
The committee is said to have been composed of at least three staff members of Subah without any representative from the Telecom Chamber.
Speaking on the Super Morning Show, Monday, Chief Executive Officer Kweku Sakyi Addo expressed dissatisfaction at how a committee could meet without inviting a single telecommunication company or the telecoms chamber.
This omission has resulted in a report, which he stated "does not reflect the facts...perhaps if we had been invited by the committee we would have provided accurate information"
He said Subah's claim that telcos denied them access to their call data records could not be true because the telcos are not even aware of Subah's existence until September 2013. A year after they claimed to have done a two-year monitoring.
"There has not been a single punctuation of correspondence [between Subah and the telcos]".
He also rubbished Subah's claim that following unsuccessful attempt to get Call Data Records from telcos, the company resorted to using CDRs obtained from the National Communications Authority (NCA).
But this claim would only expose Subah as incompetent because the data from NCA deals with international call records and not local records as their terms of reference demanded, Kweku Sakyi Addo asserted.
His described Subah's claim as akin to "watching a game of cricket to analyze a game of football".
Latest Stories
-
NPP revises internal election guidelines to strengthen transparency and inclusiveness
4 minutes -
NACOC set to issue licences to qualified applicants for cannabis cultivation – Deputy Director-General
12 minutes -
Easter Outreach: Victory Bible Church offers free healthcare, NHIS support to hundreds
15 minutes -
NPP cannot pressure Mahama to sign a bill not yet received—Solomon Owusu
24 minutes -
MPs, institutions deepen support for Ghana Sports Fund with fresh contributions
31 minutes -
Four people die trying to board boat in Channel crossing attempt
38 minutes -
Abirem MP announces GH₵500,000 education fund to support needy students
39 minutes -
African stakeholders call for stronger ‘One Health’ action on climate and health crises
41 minutes -
DVLA to commission 5 new service centres in Greater Accra
46 minutes -
Agenda 111 and the right to health: A broken social contract
48 minutes -
Bawa-Rock Ltd funds GH¢400,000 free surgeries for 102 vulnerable patients
51 minutes -
Lambussie MP awards over GH¢200,000 in scholarships to students
56 minutes -
Vice President expresses gratitude after double enstoolment in Volta Region
57 minutes -
Beyond the Noise: Rebuilding trust in journalism in a digital age
1 hour -
I have to follow the law – CAF president tells Senegal regarding AFCON saga
1 hour