{"id":652,"date":"2019-09-08T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.demo.portfolio.aveshost.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2019-09-08T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:14:00","slug":"pds-fiasco-government-perpetuated-high-level-act-of-deception-alex-mould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/pds-fiasco-government-perpetuated-high-level-act-of-deception-alex-mould\/","title":{"rendered":"PDS Fiasco: Government Perpetuated High Level Act of Deception \u2013 Alex Mould"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: .15pt; text-indent: -.25pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image result for Alex Mould\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.demo.portfolio.aveshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/alex_mould.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: .15pt; text-indent: -.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: .15pt; text-indent: -.25pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">A former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and energy expert, Mr. Alex Mould has accused government of complicity in the Power Distribution Services (PDS) deal.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">In a statement reacting to the report released by FTI Consulting, a United States-based consulting firm commissioned by the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) which investigated whether or not Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ltd duly won the contract to manage the assets of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Mr Mould said government knew shareholders of PDS did not have the wherewithal to raise the funds for the guarantee.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">According to him, PDS shareholders were allowed to \u201ccannibalize funds from operations (cashflow for all the power service providers) to meet their obligation to fulfill the raising of the guarantee condition which was to precede takeover of the assets of ECG.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">\u201cThis shows that government &#8211; MiDA, ECG, its sector ministry (Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Finance) was complicit in the perpetuation of this high level act of deception. And we are all either ignorant, clueless or just plain dumb and dull-witted!!!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b>Read Full Statement<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">We are back on the PDS issue!!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">It would be interesting to see the balance sheet and income statement of PDS as at the time the payments were made.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">If PDS used the operating revenue (tariffs collected on behalf of all power service providers) to make these payments, then it supports the fact that MiDA and ECG knew that the shareholders did not have the wherewithal to raise the funds for the guarantee.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">And, that was the reason in making it a continuing condition rather than a precedent one before the handover of ECG\u2019s assets to PDS.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">Once the assets were handed over, the PDS management could now use the operations cash flow (cashflow for all the power service providers).<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">This then became fungible with shareholders funds to fund obligations that were meant to be paid for from shareholders funds; injected from the onset into the Company PDS before handover of the ECG assets.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">Pls note that PDS was to make the guarantee fee payments from their equity (shareholders funds) but it looks like they used operating funds and made a mockery of the whole objective.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">So in summary, PDS shareholders did not need to raise their own funds to show financial wherewithal. Rather, they could cannibalize funds from operations to meet the shareholders obligation to fulfill the raising of the guarantee condition which was to precede takeover of the assets of ECG.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">The fact that we allowed a change from a bank guarantee to an insurance guarantee in itself was a smelling herring.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family:\n&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">This is because, the latter would not require as much due diligence as the former; due to the difference in type of guarantee.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">This shows that Government &#8211; MiDA, ECG, it\u2019s sector ministry MoE and MoF &#8211; was complicit in the perpetuation of this high level act of deception.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">And we are all either ignorant, clueless or just plain dumb and dull-witted!!!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">END<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">Alex Mould<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.1pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;\">(06\/09\/2019)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and energy expert, Mr. Alex Mould has accused government of complicity in the Power Distribution Services (PDS) deal. 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