Manneh's company was contracted by KMC to do revenue collection using devices.
He appeared before the Local Government Commission of Inquiry on Monday for the second time to proffer evidence.
Farimang provided the Eco-Tech contract signed with the KMC and other documents related to their correspondences, including 14 letters.
He testified that in the contract they signed, the KMC gave them a revenue baseline of D1.6M (D1,600,000).
He further explained that in the long run, they realised that the baseline the KMC provided was misleading, and the real baseline was between D800,000 and D900,000.
He claimed they managed to increase the revenue by 50% and the contract was for 5 years. He said he signed the contract without taking steps to verify the baseline provided by the KMC.
He explained that he signed the contract in a drive to support the municipal council.
“I came to the municipality to increase the revenue for the KMC because I live in KMC,” later averred.
The KMC stopped using the machines about 2 years ago and still hold on to the machines despite signing a 5-year contract, he said, adding that the council returned to the paper ticketing system.
On the claims that the machines were not good, Mr Manneh maintained the machines had no problems. He firmly asserted that the problem was the users because they do not want transparency.
He said they have contacted the KMC for the project to start again but have not received a response yet.
Commissioner Alagie Sillah interjected and commented that in contracting, when the data or information is wrong, the contract will be stuck and difficult to execute.
Chairperson Jainaba Bah highlighted that the contract document he provided has missing information and returned the document to the Mr Manneh to confirm.
Witness Manneh affirmed a page was missing from the contract and attributed it to printing error. The Chairperson instructed him to get the full contract document.
The Eco-Tech boss said the employees of the KMC were trained on how to use the machines, and that clause 4 of the contract indicated that the company and the KMC would do monthly reconciliation.
He attested they used to do it, but it lasted for only one year. He was tasked by the Commission to provide evidence of the monthly reconciliation.
The agreement was based on the share of proceeds above the baseline of 1,600,000 (sixty percent for KMC and forty percent for Eco-Tech Africa).
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