Ranking Member on the Health Committee in Parliament, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh says the Sputnik V Vaccine contract involving the Minister of Health, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu and Sheikh Al Maktoum stinks.
According to the Member of Parliament(MP) for Juaboso Constituency, the Minister of Health could not pass any of the criteria penned down for the 9-member ad hoc committee of Parliament to probe the Sputnik V Vaccine contract.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Hon. Mintah Akandoh posited that the Health Minister did not comply with the due process of engaging in an international transaction as enshrined in the constitution to seek Parliamentary approval.
He stressed that the contract stinks to the extent that there is no way out to exonerate the Minister of Health, cautioning that any defence put up by anybody may soil the integrity of the person, as the Health Minister is neck-deep in the mess.
“What I will say about the Sputnik V vaccine contract is that it stinks and that is the honest truth about the contract. Anybody who will make their mind to defend the Health Minister will go down with the Minister. You will put your integrity on the line because the contract stinks too much,” he posited.
“We were given some criteria to conduct our investigation and none of the criteria exonerates the Health Minister. We were to investigate whether due process was followed in the contract being an international transaction as enshrined in the constitution, and after the probe, we realized that the Health Minister did not follow the due process,” he added.
“The Minister of Health should have sought Parliamentary approval before engaging in the international transaction with the international private business person for the Sputnik V vaccine. And so there is nothing anybody can say to defend the Health Minister as he admitted that he did not go for Parliamentary approval,” he indicated.
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What power or authority do you have other being an MP to warn people keep quiet and not to defend the Health Minister. Don't you know it is people's choice to defend him if they want to. Did he misappropriate any of the monies meant for the drugs. What is his crime, fighting for Ghanaians to be vaccinated to the extent of overriding parliamentary approval? It is his choice to resign or stay on if the President wants him and feels he is doing a good job. These NDC MP's are just too full of themselves thinking that they are saints. It is even laughable to have someone like Mutakar still carrying himself as MP after all the baby nappies and the Kebabs he used hard earn tax payers money. It is a joke if Ghanaians remain voting for such non entities.
This man is not serious. Who should believe you? Was this not the same organising press conference upon press conference telling the whole world that the Health Minister and the government were insensitive for not going to buy the drug for the people of Ghana. Was he not the same person who same the minister was sleeping on the job for his inability to get the vaccine to buy. Now, out of desperation, the minister quickly but the vaccine without due process, you are calling for his head. You are not serious. You can not even manage your home it alone wants to be 20 years future minister.
You are not a serious chap! Look at the kettle calling pot black!