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Ablakwa vows to drag Ofori-Atta, NAPO before Parliament over $170m judgement debt

Ablakwa vows to drag Ofori-Atta, NAPO before Parliament over $170m judgement debt

Trafigura, the majority owner of the power company Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC), secured the award in January 2021 after an arbitral tribunal in London found that Ghana had unlawfully terminated a contract for the installation and operation of two power plants.

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The government was ordered to pay $170 million to the company or risk losing its property through auctioning.

“Our oversight role in terms of summoning these ministers and finding out why they created this, and seeing if there can even be a vote of censure, failed the last time we tried that because we did not have the two-thirds majority.”

“But we will not give up, and we have already served notice that we are going to pursue this matter because this is such a colossal amount of money wasted, and people must answer questions

So, I can assure you that we are not going to be derelict on this matter.”

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