The younger brother of President John Mahama, Ibrahim Mahama has disclosed that he agreed to prepare the site for the Ameri power turbines despite receiving what he describes as a meager amount in order to save his brother’s image.
Prior to the arrival of the ten turbines, the Ministry of Power contracted Ibrahim’s company, Engineers and Planners (E&P) to prepare the grounds to host the ten turbines at Aboadze in the Western Region.
In an exclusive interview with Citi News, Ibrahim Mahama said he was only paid GHc25 million, which according to him, the country would have paid more if a foreign company was contracted.
[contextly_sidebar id=”liH8ZLQwPNXjFzZemO3wDcr9lbTMf3tf”]He claimed that no contractor would have settled for such an amount taking into consideration the huge workload.
“The determination of doing that job is to save my brother’s name. If I hadn’t done it, no contractor would have done it,” he emphasized.
He said it took him about three months to complete the project.
The AMERI deal has come under intense public backlash after a Norwegian Newspaper VG, reported that Ghana might have been short-changed in the deal.
They claimed that government is being made to pay for almost about twice the amount more than the total value of the turbines in the market, costing Ghana about $510 million.
Following the report, the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) had accused Ibrahim Mahama of “benefiting” unduly from the deal, a claim he discounted.
He said, the amount paid him was by government, because he was contracted by the Volta River Authority (VRA) and not AMERI Energy.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonilne.com/Ghana