The Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi called on the finance minister to step down over the Sputnik V deal.
In Sammy Gyamfi Facebook post, he called on the Legislature to set up a bi-partisan probe into the entire government expenditure on COVID-19 and related matters.
Sammy Gyamfi questioned the Finance Minister why he paid US$2.4 million to Sheikh Al Maktoum for the procurement of Sputnik V vaccines without Parliamentary approval.
“The reckless conduct of Ken Ofori Atta in paying millions of Ghana cedis for an unlawful Vaccine Supply contract makes it imperative that Parliament immediately conducts a bi-partisan probe into the entire government expenditure on COVID-19 and related matters. But even before that, #KenOforiAttaMustResign,” he posted.
“Why are we over-concentrating on the Health Minister in the discussion about the botched Sputnik Vaccine Supply deal when the chief culprit is none other than the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, who without Parliamentary approval, paid a whopping 160 billion old Ghana cedis to the Dubai Sheikh.’’
“This is the same person who, without any transparent selection process, engaged and paid his own company, Enterprise Insurance, a whopping 110 billion old Ghana cedis as a COVID-19 insurance premium for health workers. Why is no one calling for the head of this corrupt Finance Minister? Is it because he is the cousin of the President?
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Solomon Nartey
