{"id":271164,"date":"2016-11-24T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T09:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=271164"},"modified":"2016-11-24T09:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T09:54:01","slug":"claims-of-unapproved-300m-expenditure-ridiculous-fritz-baffour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=271164","title":{"rendered":"Claims of unapproved $300m expenditure &#8216;ridiculous&#8217; &#8211; Fritz Baffour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of Interior and Defense Committee in Parliament, Fritz Baffour, has described as ridiculous claims that government has spent close to $300 million on the supply of National Security equipment without parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;YQ3ojIxJ64YIE8ne9kHMtJ8wmwoW8Tzl&#8221;]The NPP at a press conference on Tuesday, alleged, among other things, that the Mahama-led government had signed a fraudulent deal worth about $300 million for the procurement of national security equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy ranking member for Defence and Interior, Major Derek Oduro, affirmed the allegations against the government in <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/23\/national-security-equipment-deal-must-come-to-parliament-mp\/\">an earlier interview<\/a><\/strong><\/span> with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the party, government has already paid a UK-based firm, Santa Barron, $120 million dollars, for the supply of the equipment on 30th November without due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Fritz Baffour said his committee had no such expenditure budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Ablekuma South MP retorted to the allegations, \u201cI don\u2019t know where it is coming from because I am the chairman of the Defence and Interior select Committee in parliament and various interventions like that will come to us one way or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was a budgeted item and I looked at our budget, we don\u2019t have anything like that, spending $300 million on arms,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Baffour further explained that such a deal \u201chas to come before us [Defense Committee] for discussion so what I am saying to you is that it hasn\u2019t come to my notice. It hasn\u2019t come before my committee. I am telling you it is ridiculous that a certain amount is being spent unless it was part of the budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of Interior and Defense Committee in Parliament, Fritz Baffour, has described as ridiculous claims that government has spent close to $300 million on the supply of National Security equipment without parliamentary approval. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;YQ3ojIxJ64YIE8ne9kHMtJ8wmwoW8Tzl&#8221;]The NPP at a press conference on Tuesday, alleged, among other things, that the Mahama-led government had signed a fraudulent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":181777,"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":[1],"tags":[13883,3],"class_list":["post-271164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fritz-baffour","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271164","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=271164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}