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General News of Thursday, August 1, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-08-01
Dr. Kwabena Donkor
Kwabena Donkor, a former energy minister, blamed the finance ministry for the debacle over the energy supply concession deal.
According to him, the ministry played a leading role in signing the agreement with the sector minister who signed his signature to finalize the agreement.
Dr. Kwabena Donkor, of Citi TV's "Point of View" show, said that the Ministry of Energy was also guilty of the ensuing debacle.
"The first person we have to hold responsible for this debacle is the Minister of Finance. The contract was signed by the Minister of Finance and not by the Minister of Energy. The Minister of Energy exercises sectoral control over the ECG and others. MiDA reports to the president's office. "
He also stated that the Attorney General's office, the government's main legal adviser, also failed to exercise due diligence before authorizing the transaction.
"The culprits are the finance minister who signed the pact, not necessarily this finance minister, the energy minister. [his office] and then the Attorney General. The Attorney General is the main legal adviser to the government, "he said.
The government decided on Tuesday to suspend a deal with PDS for electricity distribution in Ghana, immediately after the discovery of "fundamental and substantial breaches of the PDS obligation in the provision of guarantees. payment (demand guarantees).
The details of the alleged offense revealed that the guarantee presented by PDS had been obtained fraudulently.
The information minister said that the government's due diligence led to the discovery of the violation and that new investigations were under way to determine the final action in this regard.
But Kwabena Donkor refuted claims that the discovery of the violation was due to the government's diligence.
He added that the government had made a bad decision earlier in July when its attention was drawn to a possible breach.
"We [Ghana] did not discover this as a result of due diligence. On July 16, we were informed that these documents, which had been produced as a bank guarantee, were fictitious and that the gentleman supposed to have signed it did not have the capacity to sign it. "
Kwabena Donkor, also a member of the constituency of Pru East, revealed that the minority in Parliament in 2018 had consistently asked the government to produce guarantees for the agreement on the PDS, but the government had not managed to do it.
"We insisted that they produce the guarantees last year so that we can visualize them. The government of Ghana [Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Finance] ignored our request. "
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