The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has for the second time submitted a petition to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) in relation to the new Bank of Ghana (BoG) Complex.
In his erlier petition, the legislator alleged that the Bank’s Governor, Deputy Governors, the Board of Directors, and the project contractor, Goldkey Properties Ltd had involved themselves in corruption.
He also was worried about the huge increase in the project cost from $121,807,517.94 to $222,799,760.55, in spite of very little changes in the scope of work.
In the October 2023 petition, the Harvard Law School trained Lawyer emphasised that the OSP is clothed with authority to investigate suspected corruption cases and called for the spending of public funds to be transparent.
Mr Ayariga in a follow-up letter to the OSP on Monday, March 11, has requested an update on the status of the investigation.
“This is to follow-up on your investigation of the complaint of suspected procurement breaches relating ot the new headquarters building of the Bank of Ghana at Ridge, Accra.
“You will recall that in October 2023, made a formal complaint to your office and requested you to investigate what I believed to be a case of corruption in the procurement of the new headquarters building of the Bank of Ghana at Ridge in Accra. The suspects, in this case, included the governor and the deputy governors of the Bank of Ghana, namely; (1) Dr Ernest Kwamina Addison (Governor), (2) Maxwell Opoku-Afari (First Deputy Governor), and (3) Elsie Ado Awadzi (Second Deputy Governor),” an excerpt of the statement said.
Source: Kasapafmonline.com
