Mr Akoto Ampaw, counsel for Dr Charles Wereko Brobby yesterday gave the Senel Enterprise a life line with a timely acceptance of a debt owed the company by the Ghana @ 50 Secretariat.
The intervention was necessitated when the chairman of the commission made a final pronouncement that the Secretariat could not be held liable for the GH¢18,900 which the company was claiming as outstanding debt owed it.
In the chairman’s view, the project manager of Senel Enterprise, Atsu Seade, had failed to convince the commission whom the company had really worked for.
Mr Seade told the commission that a consultancy firm contracted by Ghana @ 50 to supervise the works at the AU Village at La Wireless had recommended Senel Enterprise to Dr. Wereko-Brobby, Chief Executive of Ghana @ 50 Secretariat, after it had completed work on two of the mansions.
He said based on the recommendation, he was asked by the Secretariat, through the consultancy firm, to work on the rest of the 28 identical presidential mansions.
Mr. Seade said other contracts such as underground water tanks as well as pipelines that would supply water to all the mansions were added to his contract.
He said at a point, the company abandoned the work at the project site for lack of funds, though some of the moneys owed it had been paid with GH¢8,900 outstanding.
However, the company could not produce a document of formal agreement between it and the secretariat, except to say that since the company once collected a cheque at the secretariat, it indicated that the secretariat was aware of their work.
Another bone of contention by counsel for the commission was the company’s inability to get things straightened out with the consultancy firm when the secretariat, in a letter to the firm, sought to question the status of Senel Enterprise at the site.
Based on this development and as a result of failure to produce any evidence of contract, the chairman ruled that the company should go for its money from the consultancy firm.
It was at this point that Mr. Ampaw intervened and accepted the liability of the Secretariat to the company.
He, however, tendered in a claim of GH¢1,400 which had been added to the debt as evidence as he was not privy to the circumstances leading to that claim.
Mr William Adam, representing Killiwama Wood Works was also claiming GH¢30,259.35 for work done at the AU Village.
He said he was engaged to do interior decorations with P.O.P. materials in some of the mansions but as work progressed, the materials were dripping on the walls and work had to be stopped.
Mr Adam said all efforts to claim the outstanding amount proved futile and therefore, appealed to the commission to facilitate payment to his company.
Mr Akoto Ampaw, after cross-examining William Adam on the memorandum he had submitted, concluded that the documentation as presented was not accurate and should therefore, be updated before he could continue with the cross-examination.
Lt. Cdr. Jonathan Nanabenyin Dennis, Director of Skones Security Company Ltd., also claimed GH¢8,648 for private security services his company provided between June and July, 2008.
He said his company was contracted to guard the entire AU Village between October 2006 and July 2008 but said the money he was claiming was the bill for June and July 2008.
Sophia Amissah Laryea, counsel for Naa Adjeley Laryea, Managing Director of Skilled Force, pleaded with the commission to adjourn hearings on his company to enable them to reconcile the accounts of the company at Prudential Bank.
She said once the account was reconciled, the company would be able to give a clear picture of what the company was owed.
The case of Neftons Enterprise, represented by Zuliasu Morton, could not be heard as Mr Akoto Ampaw told the Commission that he had not been served with a copy of their memorandum.
The chairman of the commission, therefore, adjourned hearings to allow Mr Ampaw time to study the memorandum.
Meanwhile, sitting continues today with Was Foods Company Ltd, Mrs Ogilvy, Aultratech, Design Atelier and Top International Engineering (Gh) Ltd. appearing before the commission.
The intervention was necessitated when the chairman of the commission made a final pronouncement that the Secretariat could not be held liable for the GH¢18,900 which the company was claiming as outstanding debt owed it.
In the chairman’s view, the project manager of Senel Enterprise, Atsu Seade, had failed to convince the commission whom the company had really worked for.
Mr Seade told the commission that a consultancy firm contracted by Ghana @ 50 to supervise the works at the AU Village at La Wireless had recommended Senel Enterprise to Dr. Wereko-Brobby, Chief Executive of Ghana @ 50 Secretariat, after it had completed work on two of the mansions.
He said based on the recommendation, he was asked by the Secretariat, through the consultancy firm, to work on the rest of the 28 identical presidential mansions.
Mr. Seade said other contracts such as underground water tanks as well as pipelines that would supply water to all the mansions were added to his contract.
He said at a point, the company abandoned the work at the project site for lack of funds, though some of the moneys owed it had been paid with GH¢8,900 outstanding.
However, the company could not produce a document of formal agreement between it and the secretariat, except to say that since the company once collected a cheque at the secretariat, it indicated that the secretariat was aware of their work.
Another bone of contention by counsel for the commission was the company’s inability to get things straightened out with the consultancy firm when the secretariat, in a letter to the firm, sought to question the status of Senel Enterprise at the site.
Based on this development and as a result of failure to produce any evidence of contract, the chairman ruled that the company should go for its money from the consultancy firm.
It was at this point that Mr. Ampaw intervened and accepted the liability of the Secretariat to the company.
He, however, tendered in a claim of GH¢1,400 which had been added to the debt as evidence as he was not privy to the circumstances leading to that claim.
Mr William Adam, representing Killiwama Wood Works was also claiming GH¢30,259.35 for work done at the AU Village.
He said he was engaged to do interior decorations with P.O.P. materials in some of the mansions but as work progressed, the materials were dripping on the walls and work had to be stopped.
Mr Adam said all efforts to claim the outstanding amount proved futile and therefore, appealed to the commission to facilitate payment to his company.
Mr Akoto Ampaw, after cross-examining William Adam on the memorandum he had submitted, concluded that the documentation as presented was not accurate and should therefore, be updated before he could continue with the cross-examination.
Lt. Cdr. Jonathan Nanabenyin Dennis, Director of Skones Security Company Ltd., also claimed GH¢8,648 for private security services his company provided between June and July, 2008.
He said his company was contracted to guard the entire AU Village between October 2006 and July 2008 but said the money he was claiming was the bill for June and July 2008.
Sophia Amissah Laryea, counsel for Naa Adjeley Laryea, Managing Director of Skilled Force, pleaded with the commission to adjourn hearings on his company to enable them to reconcile the accounts of the company at Prudential Bank.
She said once the account was reconciled, the company would be able to give a clear picture of what the company was owed.
The case of Neftons Enterprise, represented by Zuliasu Morton, could not be heard as Mr Akoto Ampaw told the Commission that he had not been served with a copy of their memorandum.
The chairman of the commission, therefore, adjourned hearings to allow Mr Ampaw time to study the memorandum.
Meanwhile, sitting continues today with Was Foods Company Ltd, Mrs Ogilvy, Aultratech, Design Atelier and Top International Engineering (Gh) Ltd. appearing before the commission.
