Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu, has admitted that he made an error in not seeking parliamentary approval in the Sputnik V transaction.
He also admitted at the parliamentary committee probing the deal that, he failed to seek cabinet approval for the deal.
He appeared before the committee today, Monday, July 19, 2021, to respond to questions on the deal between the government of Ghana and Emirati middleman Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum to procure Sputnik V vaccines.
The Minister explained that the whole deal was reached out of desperation and frustration on the part of his office, hence failed to seek parliamentary approval for the international transaction as is required under Article 181 (5) of the Constitution of Ghana 1992.
“February, 78, March 56, there were the numbers and if you, any of us here were the Health Minister at the time I think you might have taken certain decisions that on hindsight or going forward you may not have done those things This was the environment that I found myself in. Out of desperation, frustration, so many things and people were dying we needed to protect our citizens”
“Those were not normal times and I was seriously in a situation that didn’t make me think properly, the way you think that now I will actually abreast myself with the situation.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com