Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has described concerns from the Minority over the absence of a value for money audit for the $2 billion Sinohydro deal as disingenuous.<\/p>\n
\u201cValue for money is not a prerequisite for parliamentary approval,\u201d the Minister countered on the Citi Breakfast Show.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat Parliament considers are the financial terms and the technical specifications are also made available to the sector-specific committee,\u201d said Mr. Oppong Nkrumah.<\/p>\n
The Minister also said there \u201cthere is a value for money report as we speak\u201d, he said in response to the claims by the Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Road and Transport Committee, Kwami Agbodza.<\/p>\n
Kwami Agbodza claimed that the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, was preventing technical officers from coming up with a value for money audit on the Sinohydro deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are times when Parliament will say go ahead with this but share with us the value for money eventually when it is done,\u201d Mr. Oppong Nkrumah added.<\/p>\n
According to him, the value for money audit addresses issues of risk and prescribes ways of dealing with them.<\/p>\n
Kwami Agbodza also complained that no legal opinion was sought on the deal.<\/p>\n
But Mr. Oppong Nkrumah again reminded that seeking legal opinion was not a prerequisite for passage by Parliament.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not a standard practice that the AG has to furnish written opinion to parliament anytime parliament is considering an agreement of this nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am surprised that if indeed there was the need for it by the committee, I would have expected that they would have requested the attorney general to make that opinion available,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The first phase of the project, costing $646.6 million begins with the Tamale Interchange project.<\/p>\n
Road infrastructure in Ghana will benefit from $1.5 billion of the funds guaranteed by the deal.<\/p>\n
Other roads for the first phase have been agreed upon, according to the Minister.<\/p>\n
The Master Project Support was agreed between Ghana and China in 2018 to address major infrastructure challenges in the country.<\/p>\n
Under the deal, Sinohydro Group Limited of China will provide the infrastructure of the government\u2019s choice in exchange for Ghana\u2019s refined bauxite.<\/p>\n
Some of the projects are the construction of roads, bridges, interchanges, hospitals, public housing, among other projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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play video<\/span>Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n