Crown Agents Limited, an international development non-profit organisation with headquarters in London says it helped save the Government of Ghana over $1bn in the last 3-4 years through their value for money assessments of Government contracts.
The Chief Executive officer of Crown Agents, Mr. Fergus Drake, who was speaking at the launch of the Crown Agents office in Accra, as part of his working visit to the country, remarked that the monies they helped save for the Government is ploughed back into Government coffers for the provision of other equally important social services for the people of Ghana.
He said Crown Agents somewhat serves as an advisory body to the Government on Value for money assessments to make sure that all the technical procedures are being followed with regards to procurement laws by the Ghanaian Government, thereby ensuring that the Ghanaian Tax Payer is getting value for money for whatever investments their Taxes are being used for.
He added that their activities in Ghana spans over 50 years with the specific objective of “standing along Ghanaians to accelerate self-efficiency and Prosperity” for the people of Ghana.
He noted that they have also trained over 500 Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants in the areas of Customs Reforms and Public Financial Management, adding that they have also, through the UKAID funded Complementary Basic Education (CBE), touched the lives of over 248,000 Ghanaian Students and that over 90 per cent of the students have successfully been enrolled into the Government Free Senior High education programme.
“But there is still more to be done. There is over 650,000 Ghanaian Children who are still out of school and we are interested in working with the Ministry of Education and the Ghanaian Government to do everything we can to increase the success story of the CBE Programme”, he further added.
Meanwhile, Jourade Quartey, the Ghana Country Director for Crown Agents, on his part, said that Crown Agents are into many things but they are mainly noted in Ghana for Procurement services whereby they come in to act as an agent on behalf of a client.
“We stand in between the clients and whoever the client is procuring for and we make sure whatever they are spending their money on would deliver them value”, he added.
By; Salifu B.B. Moro/Onua FM/3News.com
