The Member of Parliament for New Edubiase, Adams Abdul Salam, has described President Akufo-Addo’s announcement that his government will bring back the Agyapa deal before parliament as a joke.
The legislator said both sides of the House where shocked when they heard the President announced that he would bring back the fraudulent Agyapa deal.
President Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, disclosed that the controversial Agyapa Royalties agreement will be tabled for consideration again by the Eighth Parliament.
”Mr. Speaker, let me, at this point, assure the House that, in the course of this session of Parliament, Government will come back to engage the House on the steps it intends to take on the future of the Agyapa transaction.”
But reacting, the legislator said he does not know what exactly is in the Agyapa deal that the President and his NPP government does not want to let go.
”We are all aware that the Agyapa deal is fraught corruption; corruption coming from conflict of interest. We would be waiting. It is one of the issues the Minority would be judged on. We are waiting for them to bring the deal”, he told Kwabena Agyapong on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm.
The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu in November 2020, resigned from his position.
In a letter addressed to President Nana Akufo-Addo, Martin Amidu said President Akufo-Addo did not ensure his independence and freedom of action.
Mr. Amidu in his report among other issues raised said: “The Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction contains the mother of all suspected corruption and corruption-related offences to be discovered in the first analysis of the risk of the prevention of corruption and anti-corruption assessment since Ghana attained its independence in 1957.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com
