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General News of Saturday, 27 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n2019-04-27\n\n

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General News of Saturday, 27 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n

2019-04-27<\/p>\n

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\"KofiKofi Bentil, Vice President of IMANI Africa<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Policy Think-thank IMANI-Ghana, has said it owes no apology to the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC) Dr. K. K Sarpong, after making claims of potential conflict of interest against him over an agreement between the GNPC and a private firm.<\/p>\n

At an event in Accra, the IMANI Vice President, Kofi Bentil, alleged that the GNPC boss may be involved in a potential conflict of interest situation after he connected Dr. K.K Sarpong with Fueltrade Ghana Limited, the private firm which holds a 2% interest the DWT\/CTP block.<\/p>\n

Kofi Bentil said if this interest still obtains, the position of Dr K.K. Sarpong as head of GNPC which is the government\u2019s chief negotiator on oil matters, raises questions.<\/p>\n

However, the GNPC Boss has described the claim as false.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026I wish to state emphatically that neither I nor my family own Fuel Trade as claimed by IMANI Ghana,\u201d Dr. K.K Sarpong stated in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to him, the 2% stake Fueltrade holds in the new discovery, was acquired in 2014, pre-dating his appointment as Chief Executive of the state entity in 2017.<\/p>\n

The \u201cunjustifiable claim\u201d he indicated, had caused him \u201cimmense economic, political and social cost which he described as \u201cunacceptable\u201d and thereby \u201cdemand a retraction of the said claim and an unreserved apology\u201d from IMANI and Kofi Bentil not later than \u201ctwo weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Lawyer Kofi Bentil in an interview with Starr News stated that no such apology will be rendered.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was notoriously being whispered at every point that Dr. K.K Sarpong seems to have some control of Fueltrade and when we checked we did not see Dr. K.K Srapong\u2019s name in the Directors of Fueltrade but we were presented with quite a but of information that he had significant control and the insinuation was that there may be some beneficial ownership or something of that sort. Now our checks did not confirm that to us that is why we used the word carefully that it is alleged that Dr. Sarpong has some control or members of his family could have some control.<\/p>\n

He added \u201cTo that extent we wanted him to clarify that is the word we used so we did not accuse Dr Sarpong we rather gave him the chance because of the whispering that had been going on which some people know that he should please clear himself. Mr Sarpong has come to clear himself that is fine, if anybody raises his name we can refer to Dr Sarpong\u2019s own denial of his control then we can move on from there\u2026I\u2019ve said a lot to explain that there\u2019s nothing to apologize for.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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