{"id":338437,"date":"2017-07-22T06:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T06:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338437"},"modified":"2017-07-22T06:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T06:05:15","slug":"minority-ready-to-consider-kt-hammonds-ameri-proposal-john-jinapor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/minority-ready-to-consider-kt-hammonds-ameri-proposal-john-jinapor\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority ready to consider KT Hammond\u2019s AMERI proposal \u2013 John Jinapor"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor has said that he is not perturbed about a proposal for the government to reverse the controversial AMERI power deal passed in 2015.<\/p>\n

According to him, the previous government approved the Bill based on its understanding of all the information it had about it.<\/p>\n

Mr. Jinapor was reacting to a move by the Adansi Asokwa Member of Parliament, K. T Hammond<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, who has filed an urgent motion in Parliament to get government to rescind the approval of the deal.<\/p>\n

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KT Hammond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

KT Hammond, who was the ranking member of the Energy Committee at the time the deal was brought before the house and the NPP MP who supported the motion when it was moved on the floor indicated his latest action was based on a fresh information he had received.<\/p>\n

But according to Mr. Jinapor the minority is yet to access the new information KT Hammond claims to have and is ready to peruse it when it is presented on the floor of Parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should it worry us? If KT Hammond had said he didn\u2019t support it then we could be worried. But why did he support it. I\u2019m sure that he was convinced just as we were convinced that whatever information we had then was the right information. It was approved on the floor by both the majority and the minority. None of us has seen the information that he claims he has so let us peruse that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we won\u2019t have dumsor and it is partly because of this AMERI and so we are open,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

KT Hammond\u2019s motion has been approved by the leadership of the House but is yet to be approved by the Speaker and to be programmed.<\/p>\n

The John Mahama-led administration in 2015 agreed to rent the 300MW of\u00a0emergency power<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0from AMERI at the peak of the country\u2019s power crisis.<\/p>\n

As part of the deal,\u00a0AMERI<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0was 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\u00a0committee<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0led by lawyer Philip Addison to\u00a0investigate<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0the matter that that ended in controversy as it emerged that the committee had seemingly entangled itself in a\u00a0conflict of interest<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0position by accepting sponsorship from AMERI to travel and stay in Dubai for some days as it investigates them [AMERI].<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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