Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, has announced his intention to petition the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to investigate an alleged $34.9 million (GH₵538 million) procurement deal for ambulance spare parts.
In a Facebook post on Monday, July 22, Ablakwa accused former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and former Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu of colluding with a private company to defraud the state. He claims Ofori-Atta hurriedly approved the deal just five days before leaving office.
He accused the former finance minister of hastily approving the deal just five days before leaving office.
Ablakwa highlighted that the beneficiary company, Service Ghana Auto Group Limited, was incorporated on April 24, 2020, which raises questions about its capability to service ambulances that had been commissioned in 2019.
“Five days before leaving the Ministry of Finance after President Akufo-Addo’s lame-duck Valentine’s Day reshuffle, Ken Ofori-Atta decided to teach us one more unforgettable bitter lesson. Perhaps, it was his special way of exiting with a vengeance after incessant and relentless calls from suffering Ghanaians to have him sacked.”
“In a grand ‘lootocratic’ conspiracy with the outgoing health minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu who was also affected by the reshuffle, the two abysmal performing ministers decided to cause more financial loss — it seems from the Sputnik V scandal, mismanagement of billions of covid funds, benefiting directly from loans accumulated, all the way to Ghana’s current bankruptcy — the two outgoing disastrous ministers didn’t think they have already wreaked enough havoc to have mercy on us.
“In his last shockingly sleazy conduct, Ken Ofori-Atta by a letter dated 9th February 2024 approved a staggering US$34,904,505.00 to be paid to the discredited Service Ghana Auto Group Limited for the procurement of spare parts for the 307 ambulances purchased by the government in 2019.”
