The Supreme Court has set the 25th of November 2015 for ruling in the case where legal practitioner John Ndebugri is challenging the annulment of the Aker ASA deal with the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s (GNPC) by former Energy Minister Joe Oteng Adjei.
[contextly_sidebar id=”wtbjwkslE4yKgUCBhnoucTblruKgtYO6″]According to Mr. Ndebugri the conduct of the former Energy Minister, Joe Oteng Adjei, who wrote a letter to GNPC and Norwegian company Aker, annulling an agreement which empowered the Norwegian company and its local associates, Chemu, to explore oil in the South Tano basin was unlawful.
In his submissions to the court Mr. Ndebugri indicated it was “unlawful” for a minister to cancel an agreement duly ratified by Parliament.
He further stated if it were the case that the agreement ratified by Parliament was illegal, the government then under the late President John Mills should have gone to court to challenge the legality and not to have a minister write a letter to cancel the agreement.
–
By: Fred Tettey Djabanor/citifmonline.com/Ghana