SOLE COMMISSIONER TO SUMMON AKUFO-ADDO The Judgement Debt Commission will cut short Nana Akufo-Addo’s prayer-filled holidays in England by recalling him to Accra to answer questions on the 2001 sale of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Drillship, Discoverer 511 for US$24 million. The ex-presidential candidate, together with his colleagues in the Kufuor administration namely; Albert Kan-Dapaah, K.T. Hammond and many others, were instrumental in the sale of the Discoverer 511 to a Norwegian oil drilling company, Frontier in July 2001 to settle a judgment debt to a French company, Societe Generale. Managing Director of Societe Generale (SG) Ghana Limited, Mr Gilbert Hie, yesterday told the Judgment Debt Commission that both their offices in Ghana and France have no records of the $19.5 million judgment debt government claimed it paid to the company. According to KT Hammond, Nana Addo as Attorney-General had given him Power of Attorney to sell the drill ship on behalf of the Government of Ghana (GoG). Nana Addo gave the order in the absence of GNPC Board of Directors. He is expected to provide answers to why he failed to represent the country in a UK court, after sacking a law firm Bindman and Partners, who were getting Ghana to pay an amount less than US$12 million, instead of the US$19.5 million. ghanaweb/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=286214#
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:56:18 +0000
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