General News of Monday, 16 August 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comFormer Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has once again is his latest epistle sighted by GhanaWeb labelled President Akufo-Addo as the 'corruption kingpin' of government. This time, Martin Amidu has alleged that President Akufo-Addo's involvement in the now botched controversial Sputnik V vaccine deal is rather evident for all to see. What makes Daniel Domelevo’s government manufactured procurement suspected breaches warranting EOCO harassment different from the Government’s own breaches of the Public Procurement Act and article 181(5) of the Constitution in the Sputnik V COVID-19 procurement contract as an international business or economic transaction? (See for instance a summation in – “Timeline: How Mahama’s Ameri deal claimed an Akufo-Addo Minister”, MyJoyonline.com, 7 August 2018.) But it is this same de facto co-President and Minister of Finance who takes responsibility for the order for the payment upon the unconstitutional and illegal Sputnik V Covid-19 procurement contract for this international business or economic transaction without Parliamentary approval.

Source: GhanaWeb August 16, 2021 12:19 UTC