Minority Slams 100M Big Push Contract to Single-Employee Firm | Discuss Ghana

The "Ei!" you’re hearing is echoing across Parliament today, Sunday, March 29, 2026, as a massive procurement scandal rocks the $10 billion "Big Push" infrastructure program.

Investigations by The Fourth Estate and revelations from the Minority in Parliament have uncovered that at least one company awarded a contract worth over GH¢100 million (and possibly more) has only one registered worker on its SSNIT payroll.

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The Details of the "One-Worker" Scandal

On Saturday’s Newsfile, Sulemana Braimah of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) dropped a bombshell using data from the Ministry of Roads and Highways' own Master Register:

The Discovery: One firm awarded a sole-sourced contract under the Big Push has just one worker. Another high-value contract went to a firm with only four employees.

The Revenue Link: This follows the earlier Evatex Logistics scandal, where a firm with a single employee and no auditing experience was awarded a multi-million dollar revenue assurance contract at Kotoka International Airport.

Sole-Sourcing Surge: Critics are pointing out the "brazen" irony: President John Mahama promised at his 2025 SONA to "minimise sole-sourcing," yet 81 out of 107 Big Push road contracts (worth over GH¢73 billion) have been sole-sourced in just seven months.

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The Minority's "Opaque" Warning

The Ranking Member on the Roads and Transport Committee, Kennedy Osei Nyarko, held a press conference on March 24 demanding a "National Reset" of the entire procurement process:

Price Inflation?: The Minority argues that without competitive bidding, some road projects are costing taxpayers far above the global benchmark of $400,000–$850,000 per kilometer.

Missing Credentials: In many of these "Big Push" awards, the annexes for "team credentials" were left blank, yet the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) still approved them.

Deliberate Choice: Former PPA Deputy CEO Kwame Prempeh called the awards a "conscious policy choice," dismissing claims that they were "emergencies".

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The "Big Push" Contract Watch (March 2026)

Feature	Reality
Total Big Push Value	GH¢50 Billion to GH¢73 Billion (estimates vary).
Sole-Sourcing Rate	Over 76% of contracts awarded since Sept 2025.
Company Capacity	Multiple firms have fewer than 5 employees.
Government Defense	Sammy Gyamfi insists all contracts had PPA approval and "Value for Money" audits.

"One of the companies awarded sole-sourced Big Push contracts has four workers; another has one worker... This is according to the Ministry's own documents." — Sulemana Braimah, MFWA.