Dr. Kwabena Donkor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHe also questioned why key players in this deal, like himself and the former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, were not engaged by the committee.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Minister who led this deal, at least just give him a hearing. Listen to him\u2026 all these things have not been done. I haven\u2019t been spoken to. My Minster has not been spoken to. I am also worried about the Chairman so I find this report very political\u00a0if indeed it is an authentic report from the Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n
Due diligence was carried out<\/strong><\/p>\nAnother point of contention from the committee was that due diligence was disregarded as there was no legal opinion on the deal from the Attorney General at the time.<\/p>\n
But Mr. Jinapor retorted that the deal went through Cabinet and the AG was part of Cabinet. This notwithstanding, opinion from the AG’s office was not mandatory, the former Deputy Minister added.<\/p>\n
“In considering this deal, the whole project was taken to cabinet. Cabinet considered the entire document, deliberated over it, the AG was part of it and they took a firm decision saying the deal was a good one. From Cabinet, it went to Parliament. Parliament considered it and thought it was a good deal. We did the right thing. We went through the processes,\u201d Mr. Jinapor explained.<\/p>\n
Background<\/strong><\/p>\nThe 17-member committee was constituted on grounds of the $150 million anomaly, as well other financial, technical and legal issues, and insisted that AMERI must be made to re-negotiate the deal or be rejected by Government on grounds of fraud.<\/p>\n
The committee maintains that AMERI in its agreement with government dated February 10th, 2015, charged Ghana significantly higher than what it was charged by the Turkish registered company, PPR, which financed and executed the project.<\/p>\n
The Turkish firm pegged the total cost of the project which is to span over a 5 year period at a maximum of 360 million dollars.<\/p>\n
However, the Build Operate Own Transfer (BOOT) agreement signed between government and AMERI was pegged at a minimum of 510 million dollars.<\/p>\n
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The committee charged to review the AMERI power deal which recommended abrogation of the deal on grounds of fraud, is too partisan to be taken seriously, the former deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor has intimated. The 17-member committee, which has been working under the auspices of the Energy Minister since February 1, 2017, said Ghana […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[1234,3],"yoast_head":"\n
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