Did the Attorney-General sleep on the job? – Kwabena Donkor on $111m judgment debt against Ghana
Published:
2 months ago
Source:
3News
Dr Kwabena Donkor
Former Minister of Power, Dr Kwabena Donkor, has questioned why the Attorney-General did not defend the government of Ghana in the $111 million judgment debt awarded in favour of Ghana Power Generation Company by the court in the United States.
"What was the Attorney-General's Department and the Ministry of Energy doing? What were they doing? Did they sleep on the job or did they realise that, 'look, the arbitration settlement was on such strong legal terms that it was not worth challenging'? That could also be an option.
"But I also know for a fact that even after the arbitration settlement, the Government of Ghana agreed to engage Trafigura with a settlement plan and one of the options that Ghana government explored at the time was even to pay for the plant and take over, but again, we went to sleep.
"And this is not the first of such issues that we have had where we go to arbitration, there is a judgement against us, we agree to a settlement and renege on it". The MP for Pru-East also gave assurances that a future NDC administration will probe all of such judgment debts with possible prosecution of public officers who caused financial loss to the state.
"My recommendation moving forward is that, whichever government comes into power in January 2025, and I believe the NDC will come to power by courtesy of the good people of Ghana, we must study all such judgement debts, find and establish culpability and public officials who let this country down should be asked to pay for it".