RLG Communications has reached an agreement with government to pay back an amount of 6.3 million cedis for its failure to supply laptops to state institutions under a contract.
The Ghanaian Communications Company with headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates was found to have breached the contract by failing to supply over about twelve thousand, 10,000 laptops which government had already paid it for.
Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on Friday, Minister of Environment Science and Technology, Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, disclosed after years of tussle, there has been an agreement for the RLG to pay back the money.
The PAC has been reviewing the Auditor General's report for the year 2015. The report says the Ministry of Environment Science and Technology and Innovation and the Ghana Education Trust Fund, GetFund, embarked on a program to procure laptops and accessories for some of its agencies and educational institutions in 2010.
The two parties contracted RLG, a local company to supply 103,181 of the laptops at a cost of 51.2 million cedis. RLG was however only able to make available a total of 90,448. Over 12,000 laptops valued at 6.3 million cedis were not supplied and distributed.
The company's reason to the report, was that the Ministry made no request for the laptops to be supplied, even after payment.
RLG has been embroiled in scandals and controversies following investigations into some contracts awarded to it and some other companies under the Ghana Youth Employment Development Agency, (GYEDA), now National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) in 2014.
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