{"id":713392,"date":"2019-09-30T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/30\/finance-minister-bog-staff-deny-capital-bank-takeover\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T16:14:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:14:55","slug":"finance-minister-bog-staff-deny-capital-bank-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/30\/finance-minister-bog-staff-deny-capital-bank-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister, BoG Staff Deny Capital Bank Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ken Ofori-Atta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FINANCE MINISTER, Ken Ofori-Atta, and Keli Gadzekpo, a board member of the Bank of Ghana, have through their lawyer, denied claims that that they had tried to acquire the now defunct Capital Bank in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Founder of Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, had stated in an interview with Paul Adom Otchere on Good Evening Ghana last week, indicated that Mr. Ofori-Atta and Mr. Gadzekpo, both founders of Databank Ghana Limited, in 2016 notified him about their plans to acquire Capital Bank.<\/p>\n<p>But lawyers of the Finance Minister and the BoG Board Member in a statement denied the claim, describing it as \u201cmalicious\u201d and \u201cplainly false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers from Acquah-Sampson &amp; Associates, in a statement, placed on record that neither Mr. Gadzekpo nor Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta communicated to Mr. Ato Essien an intention to acquire Capital Bank in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the claim by Mr. Ato-Essien against the two founders of Databank, a reputable Investment Bank, is plainly false, malicious and disingenuous.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, it said, \u201cit may be worth stressing that an expression of interest, prior to examining the books of a Bank, cannot be stretched to mean or even imply an endorsement or confirmation that Capital Bank at that material time had a clean bill of health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Clients reject and condemn the defamatory remarks and suggestions purporting to link our Clients in a negative way with the Banking sector cleanup process that was decided, implemented, led and managed by the Bank of Ghana,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>It explained that \u201cthe role of the Ministry of Finance in the entire exercise was\/is, primarily, focused on how to: (a) provide financial assistance within the country\u2019s limited fiscal space to protect the funds of depositors; and (b) build stronger, healthier and internationally competitive Ghanaian-owned Banks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt must also be underlined that the Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, was\/is not responsible for the events and\/or decisions that led to the unfortunate collapse of any Bank in Ghana. His responsibility as Finance Minister was\/is to manage the national economy and, more particularly the impact of such a major crisis \u2013 which commenced prior to the appointment of Mr Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister,\u201d the statement noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. William Ato Essien\u2019s sensationalist attack on Messrs. Keli Gadzekpo and Ken Ofori-Atta is false, unnecessary and diversionary,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Ofori-Atta FINANCE MINISTER, Ken Ofori-Atta, and Keli Gadzekpo, a board member of the Bank of Ghana, have through their lawyer, denied claims that that they had tried to acquire the now defunct Capital Bank in 2016. 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