Minority accuse gov’t of causing financial loss to the state with botched PDS deal

The minority in Ghana’s parliament is accusing the Akufo Addo led administration of causing financial loss to the state over the termination of the PDS deal.

Its leader Haruna Iddrisu said government’s actions smack of recklessness and fraud.

The Tamale South MP also accused government of misleading Parliament. According to him, government failed to thoroughly scrutinize the concession agreement, claims government has rejected.

“We can turn this as causing financial loss to the state arising out of the reckless, fraudulent and irresponsible act of government in misleading Parliament and misleading the entire country without thorough and diligent scrutiny of the documents they submitted to Parliament,” he said.

Haruna Iddrisu further noted, that Ghana risk losing a lot following government’s action. He added that the NDC Caucus in Parliament is still deliberating on its next line of action.

He has also joined calls for the prosecution of persons whose actions led to the incident of fraud.

“We will lose more and we are discussing with the leadership of the party…We are looking at it from the angle of Parliament on what we can do. This will amount to financial loss of the State of Ghana and persons must be held responsible and accountable for it.”