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News
Release
NPP
September
25, 2012
WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK FROM WATERVILLE
The New Patriotic Party will like to add its voice to
the growing calls by Ghanaians, for President John
Dramani Mahama and his NDC administration to retrieve
the “gargantuan” sums of money paid by the NDC
government to individuals and institutions under the
guise of judgement debts.
Of interest to the NPP, and well-meaning Ghanaians, at
this point in time, is the 35 million Euros paid to
construction company, Waterville, via an opaque
arbitration process, arranged by officials of the NDC,
for no work done.
It has been over two years since the NDC administration,
headed by the late President, John Evans Atta-Mills,
paid some 35 million Euros to construction firm
Waterville, via an arbitration process.
Despite the fact that current President, John Dramani
Mahama, was an integral part of the Mills
administration, and was, in his own words, in-charge of
“everything”, Ghanaians were hopeful when the President,
in his policy statement, said “I am absolutely committed
to addressing the aberrations in our national systems of
payments”
The President promised Ghanaians that with the help of
the Attorney-General, he was going to “ensure that all
monies paid to persons and institutions who do not
deserve them are retrieved through all legal means at
the disposal of the State.”
The NPP is therefore asking the President to retrieve
the taxpayer’s money paid to Waterville immediately.
What is worrisome is the fact that this case is and has
not been under investigation for the last two years.
Government officials are well aware that this payment
was a dubious one and yet, no attempt has been made to
retrieve the monies paid.
Ghanaians will recall that in a March 16, 2010 letter to
government, Business Industry Consultants (BIC) advised
the Mills-Mahama administration that the certified
amount owed Waterville, which was about €21 million, had
been fully paid by the Kufuor administration, through
Consar and Michelleti, and the evidence of payment could
be verified at the Ministry of Finance, or the Bank of
Ghana.
Waterville, upon the NDC administration taking over in
2009, made claims for the payment of the same amount
they had already been paid under the NPP, and through an
arbitration process obtained €35 million.
If Ghanaians are to take President Mahama’s serious on
his stance against corruption, he must, without any
hesitation, retrieve this amount from Waterville, before
his caretaker Presidency ends on January 7 2013.
……Signed……
Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie
NPP General Secretary
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