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General News of Friday, July 12, 2019
Source: clbadfmonline.com
2019-07-12
play the videoMinister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta
The Akufo-Addo government has spent more than 283 million GHS in judgment pay since it took office, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said.
This was revealed in Parliament by Mr. Ofori-Atta, who appeared before the Chamber on Friday, July 12, 2019, to answer a question put by Finance Committee member Cbadiel Ato Forson.
According to Mr. Ofori-Atta, he did not know the details of the payments but indicated that "a cumulative payment since the beginning of the year, as I mentioned, corresponds to 283,256,267 GHS ".
The Minister's response did not please Mr. Forson, who told Clbad91.3FM parliamentary correspondent Ekow Annan that after the session, debt payments for judgment necessitated re-examination.
"[Mr Ofori-Atta] has the responsibility to give us a breakdown of who the Ministry of Finance has paid. In case of authority, we are told that they have paid hundreds of McDan, Bankswitch, even the Special Prosecutor, a number of court debts. As to whether they are eligible to receive this amount, it is an issue we need to investigate, "he said.
The opposition legislator continued: "If it's for Bankswitch, Bankswitch does not deserve this 80 million GHS, because before [NDC] To the left of the chair, we had negotiated with Bankswitch that we would not pay that 80 million GHS in interest, and Bankswitch wrote to accept that position and we have letters to that effect. ".
In the case of the alleged payment of McDan's money, Mr. Forson stated: "McDan can not claim a debt under the law because as long as we are concerned, it is not a judgment and We do not know it."
He also stressed: "I also do not think that in the case of the special prosecutor we hear that he appeared in court, there was a default judgment and the special prosecutor received a some amount for the fact that he falsely fired as a minister of state. Whether or not we qualify for judgment debt, we want more and better detail. "
The Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam constituency also rejected accusations that the previous government left a $ 200 million GHS debt backlog.
"We dispute that we left about 200 million GHS as judgment debt. We did not leave this type of amount in court debt ".
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