{"id":362983,"date":"2017-10-18T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=362983"},"modified":"2017-10-18T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T18:20:07","slug":"kt-hammond-pushes-parliament-to-cancel-fraudulent-ameri-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/kt-hammond-pushes-parliament-to-cancel-fraudulent-ameri-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"KT Hammond pushes Parliament to cancel ‘fraudulent’ AMERI deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
New Patriotic Party (NPP)\u00a0Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, K.T Hammond, has moved that Parliament withdraws the AMERI agreement due to what he calls “misrepresentations” by\u00a0the company when the deal was presented to the House under the Mahama Administration.<\/p>\n
Mr. Hammond notably seconded the motion for the agreement between the Mahama administration and the Africa and Middle East Resources Investment Group\u2019s (AMERI Energy), to rent the 300MW of emergency power from the company for $510 million, at the peak of the country\u2019s power crisis.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”HsGBc8nUyFLj5uBIohXWQMZyucGIBUVn”]However, K.T Hammond, who was the ranking member of the Energy Committee of Parliament in 2015 when the deal was approved, told Parliament’s Mines and Energy Committee on Wednesday that AMERI failed to live up to portions of the agreement presented to Parliament in March 2015.<\/p>\n
According to him, AMERI acted in a way that was contrary to its proposal to the government for which reason he had seconded the motion for the agreement to be ratified two years ago.<\/p>\n
“The law allows for procurement to be made and sole-sourced. The government went through that procedure and brought the agreement to Parliament.\u00a0We agreed on the $510 million, and expected that they would go out there and achieve results the way it had been presented to us. It\u2019s the process that [it went through] that has brought me here. They made so many misrepresentations,” he said.<\/p>\n