General News of Saturday, 7 August 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The Minister of Finance has been tasked to retrieve monies paid to the intermediaries• Ghana had paid 50% of the contract sum of the Sputnik V vaccine• This was contained in the ad hoc committee report to parliamentKen Ofori-Atta, the finance minister, has been asked by the nine-member bipartisan ad hoc committee of Parliament probing the procurement deal of the controversial Sputnik V vaccine to take the necessary steps to recover the total amount of US$2,850,000 spent on the procurement of the Russian-made vaccine. The committee in their report noted that about 50 percent of the total contract sum of money was paid by the Ministry of Health even though Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the health minister had stated when he appeared before the committee that, no money was paid to the intermediaries the ministry engaged. The report of the committee is to be presented to the plenary for consideration. The committee has, however, urged the House to adopt the report. “The committee, by consensus, recommends to the House to adopt this report.”

Source: GhanaWeb August 07, 2021 06:33 UTC