The Minority in Parliament is screaming scandal in another deal involving the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) company.
The NDC MPs have accused the government of inflating the contract for the construction of a twin tower office complex for BOST.
According to minority spokesperson on Mines and Energy, John Jinapor, the project started by the Awuah Darko-led BOST which was supposed to cost $39 million dollars has now been inflated to $78 million with only one tower costing $39 million.
“This is a clear state of causing financial loss to the state. This is a project that should have been completed by now.
“This is a project that should have been serving BOST and also augmenting their internally generated revenues because they would be renting out some of their office space. It would have helped and generated more money for the Company,” he told the media in Parliament on Thursday.
The former Deputy Minister for Power accused government of milking BOST and other state institutions in the energy sector in corrupt deals.
“This is another PDS in the making, this is another AMERI deal in the making. This is another Movenpina scandal in the making.
“The energy sector under the current Akufo-Addo administration has become a pollution haven for regularizing corruption, inflation, favouritism, and rousted nepotism,” the Yapei/Kusawgu MP stated.
He called on President Akufo-Addo to surprise the nation for the first time by Commissioning an independent probe into the matter.
“It is our hope, however, that for the first time, the President will muster and garner the courage to cause an independent investigation into this scandal which is of monumental proportion and punish his officials whose negligence and recklessness has led us into this huge debt,” John Jinapor said.
Source: Kasapafmonline.com
