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Kofi Bentil, Vice-president of IMANI Africa
• Kofi Bentil says all branches of government have failed each other
• He said the continued retention of the Minister of Health was a disaster
• Bentil called on CHRAJ to intervene due to Parliament’s inability to deal with the issue
Kofi Bentil, vice-president of IMANI Africa denounced the incompetence of the Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang Many and the government of Ghana in the purchase of the “overpriced” Sputnik V vaccine from a Sheikh Al-Maktoum.
Bentil explained on JoyNews on Monday that Kwaku Agyeman-Manu’s continued retention as Minister of Health is a catastrophic failure for the country as the nine-member ad hoc committee to review the vaccine purchase has established that 50 % of contract negotiated sum has been paid to intermediaries.
He explained that the structures of the Ministry of Health at the Bank of Ghana should have ensured that the situation did not occur.
“At least the Committee did a job and highlighted the obvious [….], it is the most important. Even Parliament has been lied to and Parliament has taken no serious action, ”Bentil said.
“I [have] said before that, maybe action will follow, but for now what I think Parliament should be thinking about addressing is if a minister can come before Parliament and swear something to it under oath. thing that is wrong and that he lets that person walk, they have totally undermined their own importance.
If a minister can do everything that’s been done and the person doesn’t pay the price and the laws of this land have nothing to say about it, then I don’t know what kind of governance we’re running. . We have suffered catastrophic failure and we need to get to the bottom of it. “
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been called on to dismiss the Minister of Health following the latter’s confession before the ad hoc committee that he had violated the constitutional provisions with regard to parliamentary approvals and the procurement law public in its quest to obtain Covid-19 vaccines.
But deputy majority leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has demanded that those seeking the appointment of the chief minister temper justice with leniency.
The vice-president of IMANI is of the opinion that “Parliament is the only institution where we have representatives with the necessary power to enter into these questions and find us the answers.
He therefore called on the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to intervene due to Parliament’s inability to deal with the issue.
“We don’t want anyone to go to CHRAJ or some other place. This will only happen if we believe that Parliament is failing in its oversight.
“So I am looking and I think a lot of people are looking at what Parliament will do to try to save whatever is left of this system and try to make sure that under their watch things like this don’t happen again. . It can be a good lesson for all of us, if there are loopholes, we solve them, ”observed Kofi Bentil.
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