Pressure Group OccupyGhana, has raised alarm over an alleged GHc 35 million contract entered into by government and the man at the centre of the GHc 51 million judgment debt saga, Alfred Woyome.<\/p>\n
According to the pressure group, government\u00a0has furtively \u201centered into a confidential and potentially lucrative agreement with Mr. Woyome, acting through one of his companies, Anator Holding Company Limited.\u201d<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”bBSWJhpJMQ8WTffj9pycJERKZPJlwSC3″]The group in a statement noted that Anator Holding is one of the companies that has filed an interpleader suit, claiming to be the owner of two of Woyome\u2019s properties that the Government has finally managed to attach in the\u00a0execution of the GHc 51 million judgment.<\/p>\n
According to OccupyGhana, there exists a framework agreement dated 21st December 2015, for Anator Holding to develop deep seaports (including) industrial parks and green townships\u201d in Ghana.<\/p>\n
The Agreement is signed by Woyome as the Executive Chairman of Anator Holding Company Limited, and the then Minister for Transport, Dzifa Aku Attivor, who resigned following her part in the Smarttys bus branding scandal.<\/p>\n
The statement further alleged that \u201cthe agreement was entered into on the basis of a non-binding scantily drafted Memorandum of Understanding entered into between the same Woyome company and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority on the same subject on 28th August 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Framework Agreement with Ghana is expressed to have been entered into so that Woyome\u2019s company can raise an initial financing of US$8.5M just for feasibility studies. In other words, Woyome is relying on the country\u2019s goodwill to raise financing for a sweetheart deal that he has entered into with the GPHA, and is possibly shopping around banks all over the world for money, on the back of this agreement,\u201d the group explained.<\/p>\n
Describing the agreement as \u201cbogus\u201d OccupyGhana also said it was signed with the express approval of Cabinet, as conveyed by a letter signed by the Chief of Staff from the Office of the President, dated 16th December 2015.<\/p>\n