IMANI is also calling on Parliament to recall a report on a
US$77.3 million housing deal with the Snecou Group that was laid before the
House for adoption last week.
Executive Director, Franklin Cudjoe, has
called for the deal to be returned to the Housing Ministry to ensure due
diligence is done before its adoption. In a statement he maintains that
Nigeria's Snecou, which is partnering the State Housing Company to build 1,000
housing units for the security services, is insufficiently credible to undertake
such a project. Snecou and its chairman, Prince
Ukachukwu, has been cited for numerous corruption-related
controversies and inquiries in Nigeria.
“Clearly, the average cost of unit (US$77,000) is
exorbitant in this scheme of things. In cost terms, the deal is worse than the
STX one,” IMANI said of the deal. IMANI went on to refer to an October 2010
ruling by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which
indicted Ukachukwu for using four of his companies to embezzle US$40 million of
public funds belonging to Nasawara State.
Snecou Group has condemned what it says it IMANI Ghana's
attempt to discredit it. The Group's General Manager, Daniel
Nwokedi, denied the charges on local radio, explaining that his company
had not been able to complete certain projects due to the political climate in
Nigeria.
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