The Minister told a Parliamentary Committee that he was not thinking at the time he signed the contract because he was among other things, overwhelmed with the impact and damage the Coronavirus was wreaking. But in a Facebook post, Kwaku Azar submitted: "It’s not normal for a minister of State to sign a multimillion dollar contract without thinking. "It is even less normal for thinking people to justify a contract that was signed without thinking. The Minister contacted a middleman to help secure Russia-made Sputnik V jabs but it turned out that the proper procurement processes were not followed as revealed in an exposé in a foreign newspaper. The said contract has since been abrogated by government with Attorney General stating that portions of the deal were skewed against government.

Source: GhanaWeb July 28, 2021 06:45 UTC