Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the health minister, had intended procuring some 300,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccines through a middleman, Sheikh Al Maktoum. It followed reports by the Norwegian press that Ghana had agreed to pay $19 per dose instead of $10. The President, in jest, said: “There are a lot of people from the Bono Region in my government; including the Minister of Health, who is currently receiving slaps. 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.)

Source: GhanaWeb August 17, 2021 00:22 UTC