GHANA INSTITUTE OF PROCUREMENT & SUPPLY

Ground Floor, Addison House, Trade Fair Centre, La.

P.O. Box CT3651, Cantonments, Accra
Tel: 0302-904001 Email: info@gipsghana.com

PRESS RELEASE
RE: THE CONTRACT FOR SALE DOCUMENTARY
The Ghana Institute of Procurement & Supply (GIPS) has noted with much dismay a video aired on the Joy News
Channel of the MultiTV network which involves the CEO of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Mr. Adjenim
Boateng Adjei, a senior member of our august institute which suggests acts of conflicts of interests and violations
to the Public Procurement Act 2003 (ACT 663), as amended.

Following a meeting of the Governing Council and the Ethics & Professional Standards Committee of the Institute,
the disciplinary processes have been activated as per our constitution and code of conduct.

The member shall be afforded the opportunity to appear before the committee, to respond to the allegations levelled
against him, relative to our code of conduct and if found guilty of breaching our code of conduct and constitution,
be subjected to the applicable sanctions.

We shall in due course update all interested parties of the findings of the process.

Meanwhile, we wish to register our displeasure on matters relating to procurement and the regulation of same,
handled by persons versed with power to administer the function. There have been several media reports suggesting
various levels of violations of Act 663 as amended. This trend has a devastating effect on the practice of the
profession in accordance with global best practices and bastardises the future development of the procurement and
supply chain management function.

That aside, we have a large cadre of young professionals and the constant negative reportage of the function has a
negative psychological effect of them.

To address this immediate challenge, the institute gratefully requests the Auditor General, the Special Prosecutor
and the Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice to extend their investigation to all contracts
issued by Restricted Tendering and Single-source methods. We believe that these alleged infractions could not have
been perpetuated without the collaboration of other persons in the procurement entities.

As a long term measure, we wish to call on the President, His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo to, as
a matter of expediency, sponsor the passage of an ACT to grant a Charter to the Institute, the formation of a
Governing Council which will regulate the conduct of professional procurement practice and the licensure of
membership.

We are committed to working with all stakeholders and state agencies to address all the challenges of the profession
and its practice, to ensure its sustainability.

Long Live Ghana, Long Live GIPS!!!

THE PRESIDENT.

August 22, 2019.