Minority to boycott discussion on withdrawal of AMERI deal

The Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament will today hold a crucial meeting over the $510 million AMERI Power deal.

The meeting will discuss the motion of rescission filed by Adansi Asokwa Member of Parliament, K.T Hammond in August.

He’d argued that the House rescinds its decision taken in March 2015 to pass the agreement between government and AMERI, citing reasons of gross misrepresentation.




But the minority caucus on the committee has threatened that it will boycott the meeting scheduled later today.

The Minority Spokesperson on Mines and Energy, Adams Mutawakilu, told Accra-based Citi FM that his side does not think that “Parliament can refer a motion when it has not been debated on, and we don’t want to set a bad precedent.”

He added: “…we don’t want government to use Parliament as the back door to rescind decisions that are effectively between the government and the company involved. Once government approves an agreement without indicating in the approval that they still have a say in respect to the rescission, Parliament cannot come later to rescind it. So we believe that, Parliament has no hands, and K.T Hammond cannot use Parliament to rescind a decision that has been approved, and based on that we will not take part.”

Source:Kasapafmonline