Member of Parliament [MP] for Efutu Constituency in the Central Region, Hon. Alexander Afenyo-Markins has challenged Dr. Clement Apaak, MP for Builsa South Constituency in the Upper East Region to disprove within 24hours before parliament the $13.9m figure put out by Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia on the uncompleted Vice Presidential official residence at Cantonments in Accra.
To him, the MP for Juaboso, Hon. Kwabena Mintah-Akando can do same since he also disagrees with the Vice President’s figures.
According to him, they just have to seek guidance from the Speaker of Parliament to tender for interrogation into the issues.
At the launch of the Ghana Corporate Governance Initiative in Accra under the auspices of Action Chapel International on the topic ‘The Role of Integrity and Transparency in Accelerating Ghana’s Development’ Dr. Bawumia noted that the current government has discovered this while interrogating data on the previous government’s expenditure.
The Vice President equally expressed shock and dismay over the $13.9million being spent on the construction of an accommodation for Vice Presidents, which has currently stalled and as well the attempts to conceal the GH¢7 billion arrears, when it was not covered in the transition notes by the previous government.
However, Dr Apaak on Starr FM's morning show on February 1st noted that Dr Bawumia had created a false impression claiming the Mahama administration agreed on $13.9million for the project, when instead it was $5.9million.
"Let me emphasize that it was even the then-Vice President who briefed the current Vice President on this issue, and made him aware of the fact that he [Amissah-Arthur] became alarmed about the overpayments so much that he queried the development and ordered that no more payment be made until the issue was resolved between the contractor and Staff of Architectural and Engineering Service Limited [AESL]. So I think that the current Vice President need to provide further and better particulars and those further and better particulars can be obtained from AESL," he said.
Hon. Afenyo Markins during a panel discussion on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ stressed “I have not said that Dr. Bawumia cannot make mistakes, but as an Economist holding a PHD rank, he would be very specific with his figures. Therefore, the fact that you don’t like him as a person does not invalidate his figures because he is not the type who talks anyhow.”
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi /Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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This whole mess will have been avoided if the contract had gone through competitive bidding. These are the benefits of sole sourcing. Who is to blame?
All those saying Go after the culprits and get the money back rather than disturbing our ears, Bring evidence that these and that has misappropriate state funds, they should WAIT it will happen in this country and people will say are we in a MILITARY REGIME or Civilian Rule. All I can say when the time reach is that IT IS RULE OF LAW which will be working from that time going in the country. By the way, the Criminal Act will be amended soon so that CORRUPTION will attract FELONY punishment as it stands now as Misdemeanour.
I am not sure anyone wish the resources and funds of the state to be wasted. What some of us are saying is simple. If you have evidence that monies were stolen, arraign those culprit in court and get back the monies. What NPP are doing now is portraying the former government as robbers without showing the public the evidence and going after the wrongdoers. They are rather trying this case in the public domain because they know they cannot fulfill their promises, so let say ndc is the cause npp not redeeming its promises.
How the country's money is spent should be of great concern to any loyal and reasonable Ghanaian. We should avoid playing politics with this cancer which is killing and retarding the economic growth and strength of our beloved nation. Spending the nation's money recklessly is indeed, a very serious matter and as such, no honest and committed citizen of our dear Nation should be suggesting that; such a shameful and irresponsible act should be left alone.
Your bias comment can't stop npp from telling Ghanaian what truly happened under the former government.what impending failure?Your wicked wish is like the ex president Jm. Masa your Ndc are crooks and Ghanaians must know what they did to the country.
I am sure if Ghanaians wanted the same old blame games to be played, they would have still kept ndc and propagandists. They wanted change, change has come, but it's unfortunate the npp are doing the same thing ndc was accused of. Things were in a mess, you have been given the mandate to fix it, so stop the blame game and do the work. Granted the ndc stole 7billion or whatever, go after the culprits and get the money back rather than disturbing our ears in order to cover your impending failure. You have the men, the test question is before you, answer the question and stop beating about the bushh