Stop calling Vokacom 'fraud'; it’s hurting my business – CEO

The Chief Executive Officer of Ghanaian IT firm Vokacom, Nana Osei Afrifa, has said attributing fraud to the company in connection with its association with the National Digital Addressing System, is hurting his business. “I handle about 100 calls a day normally, since the political thing went into it, it’s gone to almost 500 calls in a day. My phone is constantly running out of battery, but we have taken it, nobody asked us to go and take a government project, we decided to go and bid for that government project.

The unfortunate thing is because some people are attributing fraud when, in fact, there is none to it, some of our partners are beginning to get jittery which is beginning to hurt our business,” he said.

Vokacom has been caught in a political storm over the past three weeks following its development of the GhanaPostGPS app for the digital addressing system in Ghana. It won a $2.5million (GHS9.9million) contract for the entire project. But critics, including former President John Mahama, who recently described the project as “419” – fraud, have said Ghana could have got the app for free on Google.

Speaking to the issue, Nana Osei Afrifa, said attributing fraud to the company in connection with its association with the National Digital Addressing System, is hurting his business. “I handle about 100 calls a day normally, since the political thing went into it, it’s gone to almost 500 calls in a day. My phone is constantly running out of battery, but we have taken it, nobody asked us to go and take a government project, we decided to go and bid for that government project.

The unfortunate thing is because some people are attributing fraud when, in fact, there is none to it, some of our partners are beginning to get jittery which is beginning to hurt our business,” he told Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Wednesday, 8 November. Vokacom has been caught in a political storm over the past three weeks following its development of the GhanaPostGPS app for the digital addressing system in Ghana. It won a $2.5million (GHS9.9million) contract for the entire project. But critics, including former President John Mahama, who recently described the project as “419” – fraud, have said Ghana could have got the app for free on Google.

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