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The special prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Amidu, is reported to have received a gracious amount of money from the new Patriotic Party (NPP) government.
Former Deputy Minister of Finance Cbadiel Ato Forson, who revealed this to the media in Parliament, said Bankswitch and McDan had all benefited from the largesse of this government.
According to him, the special prosecutor went to court for unjustified dismissal as a state minister chaired by John Evans Atta Mills, then president.
He obtained a default judgment and a certain amount of money that was paid to him because the state failed to defend the case.
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said in question period that the government has paid more than $ 285 million in debt.
According to him, the outstanding debts that the Akufo-Addo government met in January 2017 amounted to 482.4 million GH ¢.
He indicated that a number of cases were pending before the courts and that 197.1 million GH ¢ s were crystallized, bringing the total amount of the judgments to 679, 5 million GH ¢.
He emphasized that the government's approach is to negotiate most of these debts and to ensure that the state achieves as much savings as possible and continues to protect the public purse.
"In one case, we managed to save $ 90 million for taxpayers through negotiations. In another case, we negotiated savings of 130 million GH ¢ on a claim of more than 180 million GH ¢. "
"In total, we had no choice but to pay 42% of the outstanding amount, which represents about 94 million GH ¢ per year, because of the garnishment of our accounts and renegotiations initiated. "
Ato Forson, however, argued that the government was distributing money to unworthy people, as well as pals, under cover of judicial debt, and Martin Amidu is one of those individuals.
"Whether he is qualified to receive judgment debt or not, we want additional and better information," he said.
"That's why we asked the Minister of Finance to break down debt payments and the plaintiffs for us, but he failed or refused."
He urged the media to join the campaign to pressure the minister to divulge Cedis' 285 million to GH ¢, he said, which the NPP government would have settled as debt.
The former deputy minister was surprised that the Minister of Finance claimed to have paid a company 80 million GH ¢, which he reportedly said possible from Bankswitch.
According to him, before the NDC left office, he had negotiated with Bankswitch that he would not pay that 80 million ¢ interest. And the bank responded to accept this position. "We have letters to that effect," he said.
He revealed that McDan had also received a court debt from the government for allegedly providing services during the construction of the Cape Coast Stadium, which the then Minister challenged.
Ato Forson considered that government officials, whose actions or inactions entail jurisdictional debts, should be overtaxed.
The government, he said, can not continue to pay for the negligence and carelessness of people who, for political reasons, have canceled legitimate contracts giving rise to legal debts.
"It should not be something we pay only. This money he is talking about can repair some of the bad roads we see. "
"Quantify 285 million GH ¢ in terms of capacity. How many clbad blocks of six units can be built?
He challenged Mr. Ofori-Atta to provide all claimants with judgments the debts paid up to now and the amount paid each. And pointed out that the NDC has not left any debt lawsuit demanded by the government.
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