The Executive Director of Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has rejected claims that his petition against the Attorney General and Minister for Justice Godfred Dame was politically motivated.
He said the interest of every Ghanaians who believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with the debt incurred by the country regarding the $170 million judgement debt, is enough motivation for him to pursue the matter to its logical conclusion.
“The point must be made that we are confident in our mind we are not going to leave this matter to go to bed. The interest of every Ghanaians is enough to motivate anyone to be interested in this case and to achieve anything we want to do”
ASEPA Boss Mensah Thompson on June 28, 2021, petitioned the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), to formally investigate the circumstances that led to the termination of the Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC) emergency power deal, which has cost Ghana a judgement debt of $170 million.
The body wants the CID to formally probe some government officials including the Attorney General for what they term as “conspiracy to defraud the state and negligence”.
Mensah Thompson told Noel Nutsugah, host of Statecraft on Zylofon 102.1 FM that the group will announce its next line of action in two weeks after which the CID would have responded to their petition.
Explaining his motivation for the latest action, Mr. Thompson said “This money could have gone into building road infrastructure, schools, providing textbooks for children who do not even have. So, if the acts of these people are going to deprive us all these benefits of our resources, then we have to rise up and demand some answers“
“We are not going to allow those people whose actions and inactions is causing this country to the excess of $170 million, such a huge money that could have gone into developing our roads, even solving the annual flooding issues” he opined.
He however assured that the group will not rest until somebody is being prosecuted for this matter.
