The National Democratic Congress has given the Akufo-Addo-led government the option to take appropriate steps in retrieving monies paid to some persons involved in the Agyapa deal or risk the wrath of the party through a series of protests and legal actions.
The party’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia addressing a press briefing on Tuesday said the president has up to seven days to take that action or get ready for what is coming at him.
“The NDC, hereby, demands that President Akufo-Addo retrieves the state’s the billions of cedis his government has illegally paid under the shady ‘Agyapa’ deal to Databank, which is owned by his cousin and Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta; African Legal Associates, which is owned by another cousin of his, Gabby Otchere Darko; and their foreign compradors, within the next 7 days, failing which the NDC and other like-minded progressive forces, shall embark on series of protest and legal actions to ensure that every pesewa paid to these companies are refunded back to the State for nation-building.”
Reiterating the statement of the Asiedu Nketia, the NDC’s Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, said the nation will witness what will be the biggest demonstration to ever hit the country if Gabby Otchere-Darko and the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta do not refund monies they have benefited from the Agyapa deal.
“They should brace themselves for the biggest demonstration ever seen in the history of this country. In the first week of December this year, if Ken Ofori-Atta and Gabby Otchere-Darko, in particular, don’t refund the billions of taxpayers monies they have been paid, we will demonstrate,” he stated.
According to Sammy Gyamfi, the monies the nation has lost in the Agyapa deal and the circumstances under which they were paid is no different from other transactions which have been declared by the Supreme Court as illegal.
“We now know that the agreements under which they were paid are illegal. This is just like the Woyome Saga; this is just like the Isofoton deal under which payments were made under agreements declared by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional and for that matter are null and void,” he declared
He said the Agyapa payments just like the ones made in the deals he cited were based on mandate agreements that lacked parliamentary approval.
Declaring the demonstration as “Ye Gyi Ye sika Demo,” to wit “we want our money”, Sammy Gyamfi said the threat by the NDC is not an empty one and that not even security agencies can stop it (demo) from happening.
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
