Kwaku Baako Jnr
Editor-in-chief of The New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has revealed that government ignored an advisory report on the Isofoton judgment debt claim put together by a government-appointed group of experts, whose services cost the state $520,000.
The professional group that comprised auditors, lawyers and accountants commissioned in August 2010, was charged to investigate the judgment debt claim against the government by Spanish company Isofoton SA.
According to Kweku Baako, the final report presented by the group on 1st November, 2010 concluded that Isofoton S.A. had no case. This final statement was however rendered inconsequential as government had already entered a consent judgment with Isofoton S.Aon 29th September, 2010.
According to Kweku Baako, this report was one of the many documents that government had not initially put out publicly when it sought to facilitate the probing of this judgment debt claim.
Kweku Baako criticized the selective manner in which government put out documentation on the case describing it as restrictive, leading only to partisan discussion of the issue.
In response to Kweku Baako’s argument, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, a member of the government communication team, pointed out that former Attorney-General Martin Amidu employed the said group’s report, attaching a summary of it as evidence as part of his defense, when the case was taken to court.
He said that indeed there was nothing wrong with government’s subsequent refusal of the advice of any appointed group especially, if it was in the interest of the state.
Source: Myjoyonline
