GIFEC must be commended for its prudence and strong liquidity positionPAC

Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), an Implementing Agency of the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation responsible for programmes to close the Digital Divide, has been commended for its strong operational and nancial position by a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, Isaac Yaw Opoku, Member of Parliament for O nso South Constituency, who led the review of GIFEC's statement of operations and nancial position by the PAC.

He observed that GIFEC posted an impressive 7.2% increase in surplus of income over expenditure, compared to the previous year, signi cantly improving its liquidity, as a result.

He concluded that GIFEC's “ nancial position is very good. Non-current assets increased by 14.5%, current assets by 20.1%. Their liquidity position is very strong and (has) even improved over the previous year. In fact, they did well and need to be commended.”

On progress of the Ghana Rural

Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project (GRT&DIP), GIFEC’s agship project, Mr. Prince Ofosu Sefah, Administrator (CEO) of GIFEC commented about its unprecedented nature, as begun in late 2020.

He mentioned that 473 out of the 1,008 (50% of the planned 2,016 Rural Mobile Sites being deployed by the Project) have completed and are active and delivering voice and data services to citizens.

He assured the Committee that plans are far advanced and e orts are being expedited to resolve all technical di culties being encountered, to ensure that the remaining Sites are all built and activated this year.

He concluded that equipment for the construction of the remaining 50% of the 2,016 Sites are actually in the country, awaiting funding for deploy ment, which is expected in the near-future.

The GRT&DIP forms part of GIFEC’s agship Rural Telephony Programme, which is funded by the Government of Ghana (GoG), through a strategic agreement with Huawei and China National Technical Import & Export Corporation (CNTIC),

GIFEC supervises the implementation of this Project, working with Technical Partners, on behalf of the who also chairs the Board of Trustees of GIFEC, positions she has held since 2017.