Former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor, has called the bluff of Attorney General Godfred Dame, to investigate him for his role in a Power Purchase Agreement with energy company Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC).
“The committee set up by the NDC in 2016 – against the background of a recognition that there were so many PPAs entered into by the NDC administration, and, therefore, those agreements were going to result in excessive capacity development, as it was termed – came to a conclusion that this agreement had to be terminated. The committee singled out this particular agreement for termination.”
Dr Kwabena Donkor believes the Attorney General is hunting for a scapegoat for what sees as wrongful termination of the contract.
“Other than that, we don’t expect the Attorney General to sit on radio threatening and intimidating. You don’t expect that,” he told Winston Amoah.
He wants the government to reassess the issue and address concerns raised by the court in London.
The former Minister added that since the recent development ensued, “nobody even asked me for a second what was the basis for this agreement, why you sign this or what informed this agreement. Nobody.”
The Executive Director for the Institute of Energy Security, Nana Amoasi VII, has taken a swipe at the Attorney General, Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, describing him as negligent for his failure to defend Ghana from the $170 million judgment debt awarded to power company, Ghana Power Generation Company (GCGP).
In a radio interview with Accra based Starr FM yesterday , Nana Amoasi VII called on the Attorney General to account to Ghanaians why he failed to appeal the $170 million judgment debt in time.
“We had an opportunity to go and appeal against the decision and we chose to use Covid-19 and election as excuses. The Attorney General was negligent as well. He didn’t act well. He could have defended us better so we should look into it.”