Pressure group, Citizen Ghana Movement, has sued the Ministry of Power, Speaker of Parliament and the Attorney General to disclose the power contract signed between government and the Africa and Middle East Resources Investment (AMERI) Group.
The suit follows questions relating to transparency and due diligence in the power deal after investigations by Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang (VG) suggested that Ghana will pay double the cost for ten power plants being provided by AMERI Group.
Lawyer for Citizen Ghana Movement, Nana Akwasi Awuah, told Joy News the suit should bring clarity to the matter.
“It is not a case of believing the Government or AMERI Group. It is the case that the information given by the power ministry is very scanty. If you look at the information that the Norwegian news house published and the reaction that came from the Power Minister, there are a lot of inconsistencies in there,” he said.
Although Power Minister Kwabena Donkor issued a press statement to counter VG's reports that Ghana entered the power deal with a company led by a man wanted internationally for fraud, Citizen Ghana says it is not convinced.
Nana Akwasi Awuah says the pressure group is exercising its right to information by demanding for the contract documents to put suspicisions of overbloated cost or other corrupt acts to rest.
He said the documents would enable Ghanaians "make an informed judgement of what actually went into this deal."
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Ameri a company set up this year. "Headquarters" A "virtual office address" in Dubai. 2nd in command at Ameri (who may or not be the same criminal (everyone is discussing) wanted by police resigns ?amazingly since story broke at weekend has JUST been removed from website. Then Ameri "introduces" deal to metka for a profit of minimum of $200 million over 5 years? (Government could have gone direct to GE plus "costs" would have have been able to do same deal $250m going to Metka $300m going to th...