Alexander Agyei, an auctioneer, involved in the dubious sale of vehicles belonging to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) risk losing his license, according to the Ghana Auctioneers Association.
Mr. Agyei was engaged by the MoFA to auction some unserviceable vehicles with high maintenance cost to make room for new and improved models of vehicles between the period 2011 and 2013.
However, the Auditor-General (AG) in its report described the entire auctioning process as unfair, uncompetitive and that which lacks transparency.
The AG’s report also indicated that the auctioneer (Alex Mart) went contrary to Sections 1.8 of the Guidelines in the Disposal of Goods and Equipment which states that: “In the interest of promoting probity, fair dealing and openness, procurement entities must not sell assets to staff unless arising from a public competitive process.”
It was revealed that he sold the said government vehicles mostly Double cabin pick ups at an unbelievable prices to the staff of the Ministry and pocketed over GHS 33,000 as his 7% commission.
Interacting with Accra-based Citi FM, President of the Ghana Auctioneers Association, Calvis Okai said Mr Agyei has been referred to its Disciplinary Committee for action .
“We’ve referred him to the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Auctioneers Association, because he infringed upon a section of the Auction Sales Act, where he sold the vehicles and he’s supposed to take not exceeding 3% of the commission but he took 7% which is above what he is supposed to receive because there was no Auction. I referred him to the Disciplinary Committee for him to refund the money. The necessary sanctions in the association among them-withdrawal of license, suspension of auctioneer among others will be applied.”
