The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia says his party has welcomed with ‘joy’ the removal of Energy Minister Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
“We [NDC] feel vindicated. We are happy the truth is out. That is what has happened and the NPP is now ashamed,” he told NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’.
According to Asiedu Nketia, Boakye Agyarko’s appointment as Energy minister was a ‘big’ mistake made by the President after many questions were raised.
“The same person was accused of bribery during his vetting and nothing was said about him after a committee’s report. His ministry was also hit with the contaminated fuel saga among other things. These were signs for the President to see that Boakye Agyarko was a mistake to the country,” he said.
A letter dated 6 August 2018, signed by Director of Communications at the presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin, said Mr Agyarko is to hand over his office to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, who will act temporarily as Minister of Energy, until a substantive appointment is made.
The President wished Mr Agyarko well in his future endeavours.
Mr Agyarko’s dismissal is in connection with the Novation and Amendment Agreement of the controversial $150 million Ameri deal signed by the John Mahama administration in 2015.
Mr Agyarko came under heavy criticism when he claimed that Ghana will gain $405 million from the new power deal with Ameri Energy but it was discovered that the country will rather lose up to $472 million.
Background
The revised deal brought to Parliament for approval has received as much a backlash as the original deal signed by the Mahama led government in 2015 during a major power paralysis in the country.
The $510million power plant for five years was criticized by the then opposition New Patriotic Party with allied policy think tanks including ACEP and IMANI.
The party promised to review the deal if it won power in the 2016 elections and when it did, a 17-member committee was constituted to investigate the details of the AMERI deal and provide recommendations.
The Philip Addison led committee concluded the deal had been inflated by about $150 million and recommended a review.
The government brought to Parliament a review of the agreement by introducing a new company, Mytilineous International Trading Company, to take over the interest of AMERI with an extended period of five to 15 years.
The new company has offered to pay Ameri an amount of $52,160,560.00, with government paying the remaining $39 million to the Dubai based company so they can wash their hands off the deal entirely.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/ Twitter: @Washman5/ Instagram: Ambrose_wash
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Even you a crass i.d..oit was elected by the majority foo..ls to lead a whole party. Apuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
The biggest mistake is voting John Ford Mahama and his corrupt NDC in 2012......
IDIOOOOOTT.MAHAMA'S PRESIDENCY WAS A BIG MISTAKE NOT AGYARKO'S APPOINTED.AGYARKO IS CLEVER THAN MAHAMA.
there's a misconception going round that Boakye Agyarko stabilized the dum-sor situation. Kwabena Darko and Mahama stabilized dum-sor for all eternity before they departed the scene. the media should stop misleading Ghanaians. also boakye agyarko has 3 deputies. why are they still at post ???
WE MUST STOP PARTISAN POLITICS AND CALL A SPADE A SPADE!!!! I, ANEMAWKOTA, HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE MOST ARDENT SUPPORTERS OF THE PRESIDENT, THROUGH THICK AND THIN; BUT IT IS QUITE OBVIOUS THAT HE IS FAILING TO TAKE CONTROL OF AFFAIRS!!! HE MUST BE TOLD IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS THAT WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH THIS AMERI SHAMBLES SMACKS OF HIGH OCTANE INCCOMPETENCE, NEGLIGENCE, NEPOTISM, CRIMINALITY AND BRAZEN BRIGANDRY!!! i, ANEMAWKOTA, CANNOT FATHOM HOW A LAWYER AND A HOLDER OF ECONOMICS DEGREE CAN SIT DOWN TO BE MISLED BY HIS ENERGY MINISTER!!! AND WHY IS IT THAT THE MINISTERS OF FFMNANCE AND JUSTICE WERE KEPT IN THE DARK. ALSO DOES THIS MEAN THAT THE VICE-PRESIDENT ALSO WAS MISLED??? HAAABA, THIS BEGS COMPREHENSION AND THERE MUST BE MORE THOROUGH EXPLANATION OF THE WHOLE PROCEDURE WHICH HAS BROUGHT A GOVERNMENT, WHICH WAS FORMED TO ERADICATE WASTE AND INCOMPETENCE, TO THIS ABYSMAL PRECIPICE!!! MR. PRESIDENT, YOU MUST OPEN YOUR EYES AND TAKE VERY DECISIVE ACTIONS TO SACK YOUR SECRETARY, BEDIATUO; WHO IN TANDEM WITH YOUR BROTHER, EDWARD AND GABBY OKYERE-DARKO ARE WREAKING HAVOC, CONFUSION AND UNWARRANTED AND OBSCENE INTERFERENCE IN POLICY AND CONTRACT AWARDS AT THE PRESIDENCY!!!!! NOBODY IS BRAVE TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT ME, ANEMAWKOTA, AM TELLING YOU THIS FIILIFIILI THAT TONGUES ARE BUSILY WAGGING AND IF YOU WANT TO REDEEM YOUR SUNKEN IMAGE AND HARD-WON REPUTATION, THEN YOU MUST ACT NOW; AND WITHOUT HESITATION AND FEAR. FAILURE TO ACT WILL HAVE DIRE CONSEQUENCES ON THE REST OF YOUR MANDATE AND BEYOND. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SWEEPING THIS MATTER UNDER THE CARPET AND WAITING FOR THE STORM TO BLOW AWAY WILL BE SO COSTLY THAT IT CAN LEAD TO THE FALL OF YOUR GOVERNMENT, IN TOTAL DISARRAY AND OPROBIOUS AND UNMITIGATED SHAME, THE NATURE OF WHICH WILL CONSIGN YOU TO THE ABBYS OF POLITICAL IRRELEVANCE AND EVEN DESTRUCTION!!! LET ME GIVE YOU ONE EXAMPLE OF A SMALL BUT HIGHLY PUNGENT AND OBNOXIOUS COMMENT THAT AN AFRICAN SINGER HAS PUT OUT CONCERNING YOUR BROTHER AND BEDIATUO!!! SHE IS REPORTED TO HAVE EXPRESSED HER FEAR THAT THE WAY YOUR BROTHER, EDWARD, AND YOUR SECRETARY,BEDIATUO, HAVE BONDED, VERY PUBLICLY WAS VERY DANGEROUS AND HIGHLY UNSAVOURY; AND CREATES A VERY WRONG IMPRESSION IN THE EYES OF PEOPLE WHO CAN ADD TWO AND TWO TOGETHER. HOW COME THIS COMMENT WAS PASSED? I WILL TELL YOU, MR PRESIDENT.ACCORDING TO HER THE WAY YOUR BROTER AND BEDIATUO TEAMED UP TO ORGANIZE THE MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO HUGH MASEKELA AT THE PRESIDFENTIAL LODGE OF THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE FRIGHTENED HER!!! SHE WAS REPORTED TO HAVE QUESTIONED THE WISDOM OF BEDIATUO LEAVING HIS MANY ONEROUS DUTIES TO GO AND REHEARSE WITH A BAND AT A LOCATION, OPPOSITE THE COCOA CLINIC, ON A WORKING DAY. I AM TOLD THAT THROUGHOUT THE ORGANISATION OF THE CONCERT AND ITS PERFORMANCE EDWARD AND BEDIATUO WERE INSEPARABLE; A SITUATION WHICH ALARMED THE SINGER SO MUCH SO TO QUESTION WHY THEY WERE ALWAYS TOGETHER AND IN THE SAME CAR, BECAUSE EDWARD WAS NOT A STAFF OF THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE!!!! MANY THINGS WERE SAID AND SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THAT I SUPPORTED YOU ALERTED ME!!! MR. PRESIDENT, I LIKE YOU VERY MUCH AND WISH THAT YOU SUCCEED; AND IAM NOT FABRICATING WHAT I HAVE TOLD YOU ABOUT EDWARD AND BEDIATUO!! SUFFICE TO SAY THAT THERE IS ALWAYS DARK CLOUDS, THUNDER AND LIGHTENING BEFFORE THE RAIN!!! TAKE IT FROM ME THAT THE DARK CLOUDS HAVE STARTED TO FORM AND IF YOU REFUSE TO ACT, AND WHICH IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND NOT MINE, VERY SOON YOU WILL START TO HEAR THE DEAFENING RUMBLES OF THE THUNDER!!! IT WILL THE BE TOO LATE, MR. PRESIDENT, TO SALVAGE YOUR REPUTATION, THE SINKING FORTUNES OF YOUR PARTY AND THE FEELING OF DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE TEEMING THOUSANDS WHO PUT THEIR TRUST AND HOPE IN YOU!!! AS FOR ME I HAVE DONE MY PART. IT IS NOW ENTIRELY UP TO YOU TO REFLECT ON THE SAD AND DAMNING EVENTS OF THE VERY RECENT WEEKS AND ACT BOLDLY, WITHOUT THE SHACKLES AND OMINOUS CONSTRAINTS OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS, TO REDEEM WHAT IS LEFT OF YOUR PRESIDENCY AND MAKE SOME OF US REKINDLE OUR FAITH IN YOU.
Your parents should have saved us by using condoms. U are just weasel.
loose talk .
Politics is nasty
MRS MATILDA AMISSAH ARTHUR WAS RIGHT. GENERAL MOSQUITO WOULD PRETEND TO BE THE CHIEF MOURNER & PRAISE HIM (MR AGYARKO) IF HE IS NO MORE. JOKES AND HYPOCRISY IS KILLING THIS COUNTRY. MAY THE LORD BE OUR HELPER.
See this foooöl...your existence is the biggest mistake ever....