By Ousman Jatta
Number plate producer Comfort Quality Services has reacted to claims of wrongdoing in the way and manner the company won the multi-million dalasis vehicle number plate contract.
Comfort Quality Services in 2019 came out on top in a bid to manufacture number plates and a contract was signed between the company and the ministry of interior.
Journalist Yusef Taylor investigated the company and concluded in his story the way the company won the contract was suspect.
On Sunday, he appeared on For The People By The People Show where he stood by his story and went on to make charges the security features of the number plates produced by the company do not work. He also said the complaint review board of the Gambia Public Procurement Authority had branded the way the ministry of interior awarded the contract to Comfort Quality Services as ‘scandalous’.
But Ousman Njie Chief Operations Officer of Comfort Quality Services responding to the claims said: “We have journalists that actually come here and interview and ask questions but what we actually replied and what they actually go out and say is completely different.
“They always talk about the contract, how it was obtained. I believe I have done a couple of press conferences here and we explained in detail how the contract went and the whole run down of how we acquired the contract. But it’s like people still believe that it’s their God-given right to obtain something that was tendered. We have actually fulfilled what we were required to present [at the tender].”
The contract given to the company for number plate is worth 65 million dalasis.
