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The Minority in Parliament has asked government to terminate the Ameri power deal if it is convinced that the agreement is fraudulent.<\/p>\n

Former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor at a press conference in Accra stated that due diligence was done in the purchasing of the plant and does not understand how the previous government is being accused of wrong doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe agreement went through Cabinet, the Committee on Mines and Energy, recommended by consensus and was passed by parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there was fraud, why wouldn\u2019t the committee recommend straight away the termination of the contract and take criminal action,\u201d Dr Donkor queried.<\/p>\n

Dr Donkor\u2019s comments come in the wake of revelations of a 17-member committee set up by the Energy Minister to investigate the deal that it was overpriced by $150 million.<\/p>\n

\"AMERI<\/p>\n

The Ameri deal\u00a0was signed as an emergency power agreement in February 2015, between Government of Ghana represented by the Minister of Power and Ameri Energy, to ameleorate the country\u2019s power challenges at the time.<\/p>\n

But media reports indicated the cost of the project was outrageously high. The Nana Akufo-Addo government, therefore, set up a committee to look into the deal.<\/p>\n

The Committee, led by private legal practitioner Phillip Addison in its report disclosed that it found technical and financial lapses in the contract.<\/p>\n

On the financial side, the committee found out that although AMERI secured the deal, the developer that built and financed the plant charged $360million yet AMERI forwarded a bill of $510million in the agreement.<\/p>\n

The Committee said this is not equitable and recommends that operators of the plant\u00a0should be invited back to the negotiating table to address and remedy the issues enumerated in this report.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

The Addison committee also advised that\u00a0 “in the event that Ameri Energy refuses to come to the negotiation table, government should repudiate the Agreement on the grounds of fraud”.<\/p>\n

But Dr Donkor said the deal cannot be said to be fraudulent because it went through the right processes.<\/p>\n

And if indeed there is an issue of fraud, then Parliament is party to it because the deal was sent there and taken through the necessary audits before it was signed, he said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThere was no fraud\u201d, \u00a0he stressed, adding \u00a0\u201cindeed if there was fraud, why wouldn\u2019t the Committee recommend straight away the termination of the contract and take criminal action and rather inviting them back to the negotiation table and only if they don\u2019t agree, you will terminate the contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the Addison Committee report does not represent what was negotiated.<\/p>\n

The Minority also wondered why the Committee did not invite any member of the team that negotiated the contract.<\/p>\n

The MP for South Dayi, Rockson Dafiamekpor believes there was\u00a0a deliberate attempt by the Committee to paint the previous administration black.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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