EDUWATCH THREATENS TO SUE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION.

Africa Education Watch is considers filing a complaint at the Special Prosecutor over a contract between the Ministry of Education and TANIT LTD.

The Education Watch calls on the Ministry of Education to sue for a refund of GH¢859,000 from the TANIT LTD and other losses incurred within 30 days.

According to the report released by the EduWatch, the contract with the TANIT LTD was unnecessary, and only fed into a string of procurement activities under the COVID-19 Resilience Programme of the Ministry of Education with no value for money and spending efficiency, especially when the Ministry claims it eventually leveraged on existing platforms to train the 40,000 teachers for whom this envisioned TANIT platform was meant.

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The contract with TANIT was for the company to design, develop and deploy digital teacher training content and platform under the GALOP Project by November 2021.
Per the release, the Ministry of Education stated that TANIT LTD failed to deliver according to schedule, resulting in the expiration of the contract yet the company is requesting for the rest of the payment of GHC 4.9 million based on its claim that the contract was completed regardless of the delay, instead refunding the ministry.

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“We are aware that the Ministry has since written to TANIT LTD for a refund of the initial payment of GH¢ 859,000 for which TANIT LTD is rather insisting on the payment of the remaining GH¢4.9 million based on its claim that the contract was completed regardless of the delay,” Africa Education Watch noted in statement released.

The statement also indicated that the TANIT LTD firm is virtually unknown among leading IT Solutions companies in
Ghana.

“Per our information, TANIT LTD was contracted through a single source procurement activity which is regrettably a norm at the Ministry of Education. While the firm is virtually unknown among leading IT Solutions companies in Ghana, one wonders about the justification for its single-source procurement by the Ministry of Education. The failure of TANIT LTD to deliver is enough indication that the company lacked the capacity to deploy within the five months contracted period. A competitive procurement approach would have provided better options.”

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The EduWatch calls on the Education Ministry to sue for a refund else they will instruct their lawyers to file an official complaint of financial loss at the Office of the Special Prosecutor.