The National Communication Officer of the biggest opposition party in Ghana, NDC has demanded that the Finance Minister resigns from his office.
Sammy Gyamfi is of the opinion that the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu who procured Sputnik V vaccine at $19 per dose from a middleman but also the Finance Minister.
Sammy Gyamfi brought the attention of Ghanaians to an alleged GHS billion old cedis which was paid to the Sputnik V middleman, Sheikh Al Maktuom by the Finance Minister without Parliamentary approval.
He noted that the Health Minister alone cannot be asked to resign from office when the chief culprit of the Sputnik saga is Ken Ofori-Atta.
In a lengthy Facebook post, Sammy Gyamfi wrote;
”Why are we over-concentrating 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 bi-partisan probe into the entire government expenditure on COVID-19 and related matters. But even before that, #kenOforiAttaMustResign
