- TBEA Energy company denies bribery allegations
- Media reports claim TBEA Energy paid bribes to win government contracts
Managing Director, TBEA Energy company Xian Zhi, has denied allegations of bribery levelled against the company. TBEA Energy was accused of paying bribes to the Gambian government in exchange for contracts in the electricity sector. TBEA Energy won the contract for the construction of the Greater Banjul Area Transmission and Distribution Modernization Project.
The Fatu Network in the Gambia had in 2018 alleged payments were made by the energy company into the accounts of the Fatoumata Bah Barrow Foundation owned by the Gambian First Lady. President Adama Barrow and the First Lady have remained mute on the allegations.
In an interview at the foundation laying ceremony for the Greater Banjul Transmission and Distribution Modernisation project, Mr Zhi said, ”TBEA is a legal enterprise in the World Bank procurement system and also an international enterprise which operates all over the world legally and properly. We have won this project through the international competitive bidding process and has passed through all the necessary procedures”.
”We don’t know anything about the scandal, and maybe some people are out there trying to attack this company, and we are not interested in that. We don’t have anything to do with that scandal, and as we mentioned before, we won this project through the international bidding process”, he added.