“Controversial” letter on rural telecom project not from us — GIFEC

The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has distanced itself from a controversial letter circulating on social media purporting to be from the agency about its rural telecom project.

The agency said it has checked its records extensively and found no indication that such a letter was issued from GIFEC.

In a press statement released on Friday, July 7, GIFEC said "The Administrator does not recall issuing the said letter, which does not bear requisite characteristics of an official GIFEC letter."

The statement added, "GIFEC hereby confirms that, indeed, it is implementing this Project on behalf of the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation (MoCD), and the contractual technical partners are Huawei and CNTIC."

The statement was referring to the Ghana Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project (GRT&DIP) which aims to expand telecom infrastructure and connectivity to unserved and underserved communities.

GIFEC stressed that "All applicable approvals for the GRT&DIP contract (Cabinet, Parliamentary and Public Procurement Authority) are in place."

"GIFEC hereby takes this opportunity to reassure the Public that it is not undertaking any contract not approved by all relevant Authorities,” it stressed.

The agency said it has been working hard over the past years to implement the project and close Ghana's digital divide.

The GIFEC statement further seeks to clarify the legitimacy of its implementation of the rural telecom project, in the face of the controversial letter circulating online which the agency denies authoring.

Fins a full copy of the statement below;