{"id":174431,"date":"2015-12-15T06:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T06:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=174431"},"modified":"2015-12-15T06:31:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T06:31:32","slug":"details-of-ameri-power-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=174431","title":{"rendered":"Details of AMERI Power deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation conducted by a Norwegian newspaper<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Verdens Gang (VG) has suggested that government signed the\u00a0AMERI power deal with a Norwegian fraudster\u00a0at an inflated cost of $510 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, Ghana paid\u00a0double the price for the power plant through\u00a0a self-styled Dubai prince Umar Farooq Zahoor.<\/p>\n<p>Sections of the Norwegian media have reported that neither the power company nor government did due diligence on the project which has resulted in some fraudulent transactions.<\/p>\n<p>But government is insisting it carefully scrutinised the deal before signing onto it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on link below to read details of the controversial deal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Memo-to-Parliament-on-BOOT-Power-Agreement-Part-3-1.pdf\">Details of AMERI Power deal<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation conducted by a Norwegian newspaper\u00a0Verdens Gang (VG) has suggested that government signed the\u00a0AMERI power deal with a Norwegian fraudster\u00a0at an inflated cost of $510 million. According to the publication, Ghana paid\u00a0double the price for the power plant through\u00a0a self-styled Dubai prince Umar Farooq Zahoor. Sections of the Norwegian media have reported that neither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":77330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,4],"class_list":["post-174431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}