By Alex Ababio
The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has cautioned against down playing his office’s corruption risk evaluation report on the dubious Agyapa Royalties Agreement.
In an assertion dated Tuesday 3 November 2020, Amidu communicated disappointment with endeavors by different entertainers in the arrangement to downplay the 64-page Corruption Risk Evaluation Report.
“I don’t mean to be disparaged as the Special Prosecutor as Mr. Eugene Arhin seems to have passed on by the assertion given under his hand. Examination of the danger of defilement and against Corruption appraisals are a genuine enemy of defilement instrument with intense ramifications for any nation committed to battling Corruption and making corruption a high-hazard undertaking,” Amidu said.
“The (64) page report was dissected and surveyed expertly and referred to with definite investigation of the danger of corruption and against Corruption appraisal of the Agyapa Royalties Transactions from which nobody can simply single out what he needs. The reports and the realities are genuine and were not made by the Special Prosecutor.
“The Office of the Special Prosecutor was either genuinely expected to forestall and battle corruption or was just proposed as a masterpiece to be downplayed.
The (64) page report must be paid attention to make corruption an extremely high-hazard adventure in Ghana,” he added.
Amidu’s assertion comes after the Finance Minister’s dismissals of his discoveries.
As indicated by Ken Ofori-Atta prior to starting the exchange, MoF guaranteed to attempt all the essential pre-imperative activity legally necessary, from the acquisition of exchange counselors to the accommodation of exchange records to the AG and Parliament for their survey, info, and endorsement.”
That in any case, President Akufo-Addo requested him to resubmit the arrangement to parliament to be rethought. As indicated by the President, “in light of a legitimate concern for straightforwardness and responsibility to the Ghanaian public, the Agreements supporting the exchange that were submitted to Parliament, and endorsed by the House, ought to be resubmitted to Parliament for the endorsement cycle to start from the very beginning once more.”
Yet, the Minority in Parliament has said the lawmaking chamber can’t cure the deformities related with the disputable Agyapa bargain.
Tending to columnists on the advancement on Tuesday 3 November 2020, Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu said that with the reference from the chief and the president, parliament can’t cure the imperfections as caught in the finishes of the Special Prosecutor.
He pondered: “How is parliament going to cure penetrates to the Public Financial Management Act? How is parliament going to cure breaks to the Public Procurement Act and its going with alterations? How is parliament going to cure installments made to IMRA, which has a fake organization of Databank, how is parliament going to cure that?”
“Along these lines, I don’t see the NDC Minority consistently supporting anything Agyapa. I need to be persuaded that it merits constructing a public agreement on and that will be prefaced on three significant issues”, Iddrisu said.