Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has provided documents that he believes implicate Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the violation of Ghana's procurement laws.

According to Mr Ablakwa, recent reports by Auditor-General, Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, brought to Parliament shockingly reveal how a frightening 87% of cocoa road contracts since 2020 were awarded through a non-competitive process, and how there was no value for money with some of the contracts awarded at three-times the actual cost.

"The Auditor-General depressingly discovers that under the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration, COCOBOD non-competitively awarded 266 contracts valued at a staggering GHS13 billion which was 9.9 times more than the GHS1.3billion it budgeted for," he wrote in a Facebook post.

According to him, one of the beneficiary companies is Resources Access Limited, owned by Abraham Bawumia (Bawumia's brother) and Aneta Kaminska Bawumia who have familial ties with Vice President Bawumia.

Public Procurement Authority (PPA) documents he shared on the X platform reveal that on July 2, 2020, Resources Access Limited was handed two lucrative single-sourced cocoa road contracts valued at a fantastic GHS83.7 million.

The details of the two contracts are as follows: 1. Contract for upgrading of Effutu - Abrem Agona and Effutu - Sorodofo Feeder Road (21.39km - Central Region) awarded at GHS 54,262,878.84

2. Contract for upgrading of Kyiboso Hasowodze Bungalow, Feeder Road (14.50km - Central Region) awarded at GHS29,468,546.54.

For Mr Ablakwa, it is hypocritical on the part of Dr Bawumia to attack former President John Mahama when he is directly benefiting from "loot and share schemes."

"Who could ever have predicted that after Vice President Bawumia launched his scathing and vicious attacks on President John Mahama, the Bawumia family would one day be caught neck-deep directly benefiting from multiple over-priced, single-sourced, “create, loot and share schemes?” he quizzed.

On 23rd August, 2016, then NPP Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo put out a tweet declaring that: “the era of sole sourcing will come to an end.” Later, Dr. Bawumia followed on September 8, 2016, stating emphatically: “overpricing of contracts through the use of sole sourcing is very typical of this John Mahama NDC government.”

He assured that Parliament is going to soon have an "explosive session" deliberating on the Auditor-General’s report.