Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu, has vowed to commence summon processes to get the Finance and Energy ministers in Parliament.
He says the summon will also include the Attorney-General. The MP says the decision is in response to the release of a GH¢230 million to clear a judgment debt owed to Trafigura.
Trafigura, which owns majority share in a power company, Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC), secured an award of a contract for the installation and operation of two power plants in January, 2021 after an arbitral tribunal in London found that Ghana had unlawfully terminated the agreement.
The government was ordered to pay $170 million to the company or risk losing its property through auctioning.
The government has thus released $20 million to initiate the payment process.
But the North Tongu lawmaker said the ministers in charge should appear before the Legislature to answer some questions.
“Our oversight role in terms of summoning these ministers and finding out why they created this, and seeing if there can even be a vote of censure, failed the last time we tried that, because we did not have the two-thirds majority.”
“But we will not give up, and we have already served notice that we are going to pursue this matter because this is such a colossal amount of money wasted, and people must answer questions. You can’t waste all of these resources which could have been used to build roads, hospitals, solve our water problems, and address our housing challenges for displaced persons. So, I can assure you that we are not going to be derelict on this matter,” he told Accra-based Citi FM.
