Frontiers Healthcare Services gained $84 million during the Covid tests at KIA, while Ghana only received $7 million.
The depth of the financial discrepancy that has favour Frontiers Healthcare Services has been revealed following a year-long legal struggle JoyNews started under the Right to Information Act.
Nevertheless, the airport firm stated in response to JoyNews' initial request for information about the monies earned and distributed among the parties that they were unable to do so because "passengers paid directly to Frontiers Healthcare, the providers of the service."
Frontiers received an amazing $84 million from arrival testing and an extra GHS 29 million ($3.5 million) from departure testing, according to data that was ultimately made available by the Airport Company to JoyNews.
In sharp contrast, Ghana only got GHS 1.5 million ($180,000) from departure testing and less than $6 million from arrival testing during the same period.
This uneven distribution of revenue reveals that Frontiers received over 90% of the profits, keeping 92% of the proceeds from arrival testing and a sizeable 94% from departure testing.
Ghana, on the other hand, received a pitiful portion of the money, less than 10%, with just 7% coming from arrival testing and only 6% from exit testing.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the ranking member of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, submitted a motion to the legislature calling for an impartial audit of the contentious testing agreement between Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) and Frontiers as a result of the significant disparity in revenue allocation.
Critics contend that, given the economic problems brought on by COVID-19, Ghana's modest contribution is evidence of wasted opportunities to devote funds that could have bolstered the country's response to the pandemic.
Source: Myjoline website.
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