Why Agyeman-Manu, Ofori-Atta are still at post – Kofi Bentil explains
IMANI’s Senior Vice-President, Kofi Bentil, Saturday August 14, 2021, laid into the Akufo-Addo-led administration, accusing it of selective justice.
His accusations comes on the back of the Finance and Health ministers who are still at post despite calls by many to sack them or resign on their own for their involvement in the Sputnik V vaccine scandal.
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He said Ghana is run on two types of laws – “ordinary people’s law and powerful people’s law” – and because the health minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu [and Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister], falls under the latter, there will be no consequences for his decision.
“If the minister[s] is subject to the laws of Ghana, he would not be home,” he said on NewsFile.
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Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has taken a two-weeks leave as pressure mounts on the president to sack him.
The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, and the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, are at the centre of the Sputnik V vaccine scandal in which Ghana entered into an agreement with Sheik Dalmook Al Maktoum for the supply of vaccines.
But the vaccines never came despite the controversial payment of $2.85 million.
A nine-member ad-hoc parliamentary committee was set up to probe the murky Sputnik V vaccine procurement deal, which fell short of recommending the Health Minister’s resignation or sack despite the public uproar.
Source: Myjoyonline
