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An urgent motion has been filed in Parliament to have the house rescind the controversial AMERI power<\/a><\/strong><\/span> deal it passed in 2015.<\/p>\n

The motion, according to Citi News<\/strong> sources has been filed by the Adansi Asokwa Member of Parliament, K. T Hammond, who was the ranking member of the Energy Committee at the time the deal was brought before the house.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”aKv4rObgWDRlDyOUWP3j3Epz85b9xy6a”]It would be recalled that the K. T Hammond was the NPP MP who supported the motion when it was moved on the floor.<\/p>\n

Excerpts of the motion sighted by Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0indicates the legislator’s conviction that the\u00a0deal was suspicious based on some fresh information available to him.<\/p>\n

The motion has been approved by the leadership of the House but is yet to be programmed.<\/p>\n

The John Mahama-led administration in 2015 agreed to rent the 300MW of emergency power<\/strong><\/a><\/span> from AMERI at the peak of the country’s power crisis.<\/p>\n

As part of the deal, AMERI<\/strong><\/a><\/span> was to build the power plants and operate them for 5 years before transferring it to the government.<\/p>\n

The cost of the deal was $510m and received parliamentary approval on 20th March, 2015.<\/p>\n

The approval of the deal was met with several oppositions but eventually received endorsement by the legislative body.<\/p>\n

It later emerged that the government had been shortchanged by AMERI as they presented an overpriced budget.<\/p>\n

The reports said the government had paid an excess of $150m but state officials of the Mahama government disagreed.<\/p>\n

The New Patriotic Party government which assumed office said it would look into the matter.<\/p>\n

The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko later constituted a committee<\/strong><\/a><\/span> led by lawyer Philip Addison to investigate<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the matter that that ended in controversy as it emerged that the committee had seemingly entangled itself in a conflict of interest<\/strong><\/a><\/span> position by accepting sponsorship from AMERI to travel and stay in Dubai for some days as it investigates them [AMERI].<\/p>\n

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By: Umaru Sanda Amadu & Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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