Consultants must consider obtaining indemnity to cover their services – Agbodza

Roads and Highways Minister-designate, Governs Kwame Agbodza is making a case for consultants who are warded government contracts to consider including indemnity services in their contracts.

Appearing before the Appointments Committee on Monday, January 20, Agbodza noted that in other jurisdictions indemnity services are included in contracts of contactors so as to cover risks when project fails.

The Adaklu MP in answering questions from the vetting committee, noted that some risks must be associated with contractor who receive huge contracts from government.

“Is it time for consultants taking on huge government contracts to take the appropriate indemnity to cover the services they are providing because the Ghanaian does not understand why you would do a project in his backyard and six months; the rain washes everything away and we are looking for another money to start. So, it will be a combination of these things.

“I’ve heard people talk about increasing the defect liability period to 24 months, that will not necessarily solve the problem. The problem is that we need to build capacity and put some of the risk on the back of the contractors but to also pay contactors on time to be able to execute the works within schedule,” he explained.

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