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Sputnik V saga: Ken Ofori-Atta must resign, says Sammy Gyamfi

The communications director of the NDC also wants the public to exert pressure on the Finance Minister to resign over the Sputnik V contract

Sammy Gyamfi, the communications director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), is calling for the resignation of the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, following the botched Sputnik V vaccines supply deal.

He is questioning why the minister paid US$2.4 million to Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum for procurement of Sputnik V vaccines, when he had not sought parliamentary approval.

In a Facebook post, Gyamfi called on the legislature to set up a bipartisan probe into the entire government expenditure on COVID-19 and related matters.

“Why are we overconcentrating on the Health Minister in the discussion about the botched Sputnik vaccine supply deal when the chief culprit is none other than the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, who, without parliamentary approval, paid a whopping 160 billion old Ghana cedis to the Dubai sheikh?

“This is the same person who, without any transparent selection process, engaged and paid his own company, Enterprise Insurance, a whopping 110 billion old Ghana cedis as COVID-19 insurance premium for health workers. Why is no one calling for the head of this corrupt Finance Minister? Is it because he is the cousin of the President?

“The reckless conduct of Ken Ofori-Atta in paying millions of Ghana cedis for an unlawful vaccine supply contract makes it imperative that Parliament immediately conducts a bipartisan probe into the entire government expenditure on COVID-19 and related matters. But even before that , #KenOforiAttaMustResign,” he posted.

“I’ll refund Ghana’s $2.4 million”

Meanwhile, Sheikh Al Maktoum, the agent, has agreed to refund to the government US$2.47 million in total, being the “remaining amount for the non-supplied doses” of the vaccine.

Sheikh Al Maktoum was due to supply roughly 300,000 Sputnik V vaccines in an agreement signed with the government, but his outfit only delivered 20,000.

The parliamentary ad-hoc committee set up to investigate the controversial Sputnik V vaccine deal has ordered the Finance Minister to retrieve the money.

In a letter addressed to the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Sheikh Al Maktoum said that “we shall initiate the refund process to your bank account”.

Read the letter in full below:

Fred Dzakpata

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