They are the former acting Chief Director of the ministry, Salimatu Abdul-Salam, Christopher Eleblu, Internal Auditor, Robert Azumah, Director of Administration, and Michael Kyere- Yenoah, Estates Officer.
According to the report, the four workers at the ministry, who are currently on interdiction, connived with Ben Alsu Eleblu, and paid a mobilisation fee of GH¢700,000 to five companies owned by the latter, for the periodic maintenance of health facilities in the country, but for which no work was done.
Information available to The Chronicle, indicates that a former Minister of Health, the late Major Courage Quashiga (rtd), in his bid to the prevent health facilities from deteriorating seriously before any renovation works, launched a "Preventive Maintenance Initiative," aimed at the periodic maintenance of all health facilities in the country.
Bids were subsequently opened, for which fifteen companies tendered.
It was later revealed that all the bids were submitted by one person, Ben Atsu Eleblu, whose brother was the ministry's Internal Auditor.
To pretend that the procurement processes bad been followed, the accused member of staff got Atsu Eleblu to submit two other quotations for each of the five quotations he presented to renovate the health facilities.
The investigation revealed that out of the 15 companies, only the five that eventually won the contracts were registered entities. The other ten were fake companies.
Out of the five registered ones, the SFO discovered that two are owned by Atsu Eleblu, and other two by his two Wives, and the remaining one by his niece.
The companies are Mantosa Enterprise, Betyros Enterprise, Analex Enterprise, Dansy Enterprise and P-Takon Enterprise.
The ten fake companies are Helecom Trading Enterprise, Perlsa Enterprise, K-Ofori Enterprise, Pesasco Enterprise, Barsako Enterprise, Ikephine Enterprise, Frank-co Enterprise and Pesars Enterprise.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General's Department, upon the receipt of the report, is said to have prepared a charge of causing financial loss to the state against the five persons named in the report, who may soon appear in court.
An official source contacted at the Attorney General's Department confirmed the story, and indicated that the accused persons would soon appear in court to face the law.
Source: The Chronicle
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