A group called Concern Ghanaians in the United States has called on government to respond to claims by an IT guru, Kingsley Komla Elikem, that it paid VOKACOM $2.5million for Ghana’s digital address system application – Ghana Post App – when that application is already available for free on Google.
The group also wants to know how much VOKACOM was paid for the existing app and the procurement process leading to VOKACOM securing the contract.
This comes on the heels of revelation by Mr Elikem that government might have purchased an already existing application available for free for $2.5million.
To this end, the group said government should, as a matter of urgency, initiate the process of collecting all monies paid to VOKACOM and ask the Attorney General to prosecute for fraud.
The group, in a statement, said: “There are some videos going viral on social media that were made by one of our own called Kingsley Komla Elikem. The videos seem to suggest that the $2.5million that was paid to VOKACOM for Ghana’s Digital Address System should not have been paid to them because what VOKACOM is charging us is already available to us for free.
“The videos by Kingsley demonstrated that VOKACOM has not added anything new to an existing application, and that one person sat in his office and used the little knowledge he has to collect $2.5million from the Government of Ghana. Kingsley, also in those videos, raised very serious security issues in the use of the application in Ghana, including the creation of multiple addresses by one person. So far, neither VOKACOM nor the Government of Ghana has come out to deny or refute the claim by Kingsley Komla, and we find this troubling since their silence raises a lot of questions.
Source: GhanaWeb
