Pay-television operator StarTimes, which owns South Africa’s StarSat, is suing the Ghanaian government for US$200m (about R2,5bn) over alleged wrongful termination of contract.
The Chinese company, which competes aggressively across the continent with South Africa’s MultiChoice, had won a contract to supply and install a digital terrestrial TV network in Ghana in 2012.
But according to reports in Ghanain media, StarTimes is now instituting proceedings at the London Court of International Arbitration against the Ghanaian government.
The contract with StarTimes was reportedly terminated by Ghana’s ministry of communications over delayed implementation of the project, which has since been awarded to another company, Knet.
But according to a report, Knet has no previous record of executing a digital migration project and that the tender was awarded to the company without following the correct processes.
Ghana’s deputy minister of communications, Ato Sarpong, was until his appointment the chief operating officer of Knet. — (c) 2015 NewsCentral Media
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