Former President John Dramani Mahama says Ghanaians ought to ask more questions about the botched PDS as some persons are still reaping dividends from the revenue collections.
He claimed revenue collections made by botched PDS and amounting to some GHS200 million has been lodged in some commercial bank with those behind it still earning interest on it.
“When they came they saw an avenue to make money for the family. You can hear Gabby [Otchere Darko’s] voice clearly negotiating shareholding in PDS.”
“We are too shocked by the corruption of the Akufo-Addo administration that nothing shocks us anymore so now when huge amounts of corruption happen, people don’t have the energy to talk about it again,” Mr. Mahama said.
“PDS has taken some the Electricity Company’s revenues, more than GHS200 million, and put in the commercial bank here and that money is earning interest and we need to ask then who the interest is going to.” he questioned in an interview on Pan African TV on Saturday morning.
Critics and the main opposition NDC believe the PDS deal was a vehicle of corruption and asked for a detailed account of revenue generated from the PDS deal.
Mr. Mahama insists he would investigate the botched power agreement if he is elected as President in the 2020 polls.
The deal was rolled out on March 1, 2019, and saw PDS take over the assets and operations of ECG.
Six months into its operation, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta in a letter dated October 18, 2019, to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announced the termination of the agreement after it was hit by some scandals.
Source: Ghana/Kasapafmonline.com
