New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Aburi-Nsawam, Hon. O. B. Amoah has finally opened up on his alleged role in the controversial GH�58 million Alfred Agbesi Woyome brouhaha.
The former Deputy Minister of Sports under the erstwhile Kufuor administration admitted writing a letter stating that the government does not have any objection to the company moving to the site (stadium) to commence demolition works but explained that the letter was a response to a petition from Waterville.
According to him, Waterville wrote a letter to government appealing for more time to construct the stadia and so if they are not allowed to go to the site by a certain period, the job could delay.
The embattled former minister was contributing to discussions on Peace FM�s Kokrokoo Morning show on the reason why he wrote a letter to Waterville to go on site when no contract had actually been signed.
�Government signed a Memorandum of Understand (MOU) with Waterville Holdings on November 30, 2005 and as at January, 2006 they wrote to government that they will need enough time to execute the project and so if they are not allowed to go to site by certain period, it will be difficult to execute the job by the given time, even though they were yet to meet the conditions of the MOU,� Hon O.B. Amoah clarified.
According to him, �in response to their plea, he wrote back on the authority of the then minister, Hon. Osafo-Maafo and copied to all the relevant authority that they do not have any objection to their moving to site to commence demolition and evacuation�.
�Subsequently, Waterville couldn�t meet the MOU requirement especially clause 17 of the agreement so in August 2006, the then Attorney General, Joe Ghartey wrote to them that since they�ve not met the conditions, cabinet has given approval to other contractors, CONSAR limited and Micheletti Comp limited to do the job and that our then consultant, BIC will sit down with them and calculate all the debt they�ve incurred and it will be refunded by the new contractors,� he revealed.
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