{"id":175087,"date":"2015-12-17T10:14:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=175087"},"modified":"2015-12-18T19:44:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:44:29","slug":"ameri-deal-i-took-only-ghc25m-to-save-my-brother-ibrahim-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/12\/ameri-deal-i-took-only-ghc25m-to-save-my-brother-ibrahim-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERI deal: GHc25m I took for the job was meager &#8211; Ibrahim Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The younger brother of President John Mahama, Ibrahim Mahama has disclosed that he agreed to\u00a0prepare the site for the Ameri power turbines despite receiving what he describes as a meager amount in order to save his brother&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to the arrival of the ten turbines,\u00a0the Ministry of Power contracted Ibrahim&#8217;s company, Engineers and Planners (E&amp;P) to prepare the grounds to host the ten turbines at Aboadze in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an\u00a0exclusive interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;liH8ZLQwPNXjFzZemO3wDcr9lbTMf3tf&#8221;]He claimed that no contractor would have settled for such an amount taking into consideration the huge workload.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The determination of doing that job is to save my brother\u2019s name. If I hadn&#8217;t done it, no contractor would have done it,&#8221; he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said it took him about three months to complete the project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the report, the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) had <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/12\/14\/mahama-and-his-brother-connected-to-ameri-deal-npp\/\" target=\"_blank\">accused Ibrahim Mahama<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>of &#8220;benefiting&#8221; unduly from the deal, a claim he discounted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, the amount paid him was by government, because he\u00a0was contracted by the Volta River Authority (VRA) and not \u00a0AMERI Energy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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