General News of Monday, 26 June 2017Source: AccraFM.com/100.5FM$15b Chinese loan deal didn't come to parliament – MPDr. Bawumia revealed the Chinese government had committed a sum of $ 15bn to GhanaBolgatanga Central MP Isaac Adongo has indicated that the Finance Committee of Parliament was not briefed on the details of the US$15billion that the Chinese government has committed to Ghana to execute the One-District-One-Factory project. According to him, the committee was not informed of the transaction because government said the loan was contracted by the private sector with . He, however, accused the government of hiding under the cover of the loan not being a government one to conceal the details from parliament. They claimed that this loan was not for government so that we cannot scrutinise the detail and bring it out to Ghanaians. “As we speak parliament doesn’t know the details and so we expect them to make the Memorandum of Understanding available to us.”

Source: GhanaWeb June 26, 2017 14:15 UTC