{"id":363325,"date":"2017-10-20T07:14:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T07:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363325"},"modified":"2017-10-20T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T07:14:01","slug":"kwabena-donkor-to-face-parliament-over-ameri-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363325","title":{"rendered":"Kwabena Donkor to face Parliament over Ameri deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Citi News<\/strong> sources indicate that Former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor will later today [Friday] appear before the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament in relation to the controversial AMERI power deal.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Adansi Asokwa MP, KT Hammond, appeared before the committee with a submission that sought to substantiate his motion for a\u00a0rescission\u00a0of the 510 million dollar deal ratified by Parliament in March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;FsVoSfcX41Naa3K15yLBcqf9z9nRlXFH&#8221;]Dr. Kwabena Donkor was the Minister for Power when the deal was brokered and ratified by Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the Parliamentary Committee meeting would be a public hearing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CID storms Kwabena Donkor&#8217;s home over AMERI deal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In July, Mr. Donkor, had his home subjected to a thorough search by some personnel from the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police over the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The personnel were on a mission to retrieve evidence that suggests the former minister had caused financial loss to the state as a result of his involvement in the deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0John Mahama\u00a0administration in 2015, agreed to rent the 300MW of<strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/03\/kwabena-donkor-rubbishes-addison-committee-report-on-ameri\/\">emergency power<\/a><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">\u00a0f<\/span>rom AMERI at the peak of the country\u2019s power crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the deal was $510m, and received\u00a0parliamentary approval on 20th March, 2015. However, it emerged that the country had been shortchanged by the company, acccording to the NPP\u00a0government.<\/p>\n<p>The reports said the\u00a0government\u00a0had paid in excess of $150m, but state officials of the Mahama\u00a0government\u00a0disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party\u00a0government\u00a0which assumed office said it would look into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, later constituted a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/27\/ameri-deal-to-be-abrogated-over-150m-bloated-commission\/\"><strong>committee<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0led by lawyer Philip Addison to\u00a0investigate\u00a0the matter that ended in controversy, as it emerged that the committee had seemingly entangled itself in a possible\u00a0conflict of interest\u00a0position by accepting sponsorship from AMERI to travel and stay in Dubai for some days as it investigated them [AMERI].<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah &amp; Duke Mensah Opoku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi News sources indicate that Former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor will later today [Friday] appear before the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament in relation to the controversial AMERI power deal. 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