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December 18, 2023
Ranking Member on the Mines and Energy Committee of Ghana’s Parliament John Abdulai Jinapor has called for the immediate suspension of a ten year contract agreement between the Finance Ministry and Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) for revenue assurance services.
According to the Yiepe/Kusawgu lawmaker the contract is fraudulent which further burden the taxpayer and enrich the pocket of greedy politicians who are leading in signing this contract.
In an interview he commended the media for their investigation and added that the Minority has discussed this topical issue and would be moving processes in Parliament to ensure full scale investigation because they do not believe there is value for money.
He further explained that just some few weeks ago Parliament’s Committee on Mines and Energy visited NPA and they were made aware that enough systems have been put in place to ensure all revenue are safe guarded and that they have even hooked up with the Ghana Reven Authority to ensure those assurances are taken care of.
Again it tun up that the three billion savings was not true, we cannot allow the tax payers to be burden with such not necessary contracts.
Meanwhile on Ghana’s foreign component of debt, government is struggling, and government was forced to pay twelve billion in interest payment in the budget as at January to August 2023. As we speak they have paid only four billion all because government has suspended the payment of some category of our debt; “so when you see budget deficits are improving, it is not because we have done anything good but we have suspended payment.
And that has a long way to affect the negotiation. I am not surprised that the IMF negotiation is stalling”, he stated.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com