Incensed former Deputy Minister of Power, John Jinapor wants government to employ a more “humane” way in dealing with issues surrounding the controversial Ameri power deal.
His house was raided by armed police personnel Friday morning as government gives strong indication of its resolve to investigate the numerous energy deals signed by the previous government.
Mr. John Jinapor who is also the Member of Parliament for Yapei Kusawgu said the security operatives told him specifically that they were “looking for documents related to the Ameri deal”.
But the former Deputy Minister told Joy News in the afternoon that police officers with search warrant from the “police hierarchy”, signed by one Bright Oduro found nothing.
Indeed the officers who accosted him in his house at 8 am searched everywhere including the kitchen, washrooms, and kids rooms, he he claimed.
“But they found nothing,” he said of the hours search.
They however took away his mobile phone (iphone) without his SIM and was asked to produce his laptop, which he said he needed clearance from the Speaker of Parliament first because it is the property of Parliament.
“I am not against investigations. I am ready to cooperate with any other agency interested in the matter, the truth will come out…but I think it should have been done in a more humane,” he asserted.
He said he is considering several options available to him with the Minority in Parliament on the development.
John Jinapor said his family are traumatised by the experience as he wondered why his personal phone was taken from him.
“I don’t know why they took the phone…there are a lot of private stuff on it and nothing official,” the former deputy minister who was once the spokesperson of then vice president John Mahama said.
The Ameri deal was signed by the Mahama-led government in late 2015 when the country was at the peak of its energy crisis that became known as “dumsor”.
The Power Minister who led the deal on behalf of government, Dr. Kwabena Donkor also had his house raided by security operatives on Monday.
Source: 3news
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@Albert you have taken the wind out of me. It is shameful, very unfortunate for people to use the words 'witch hunting' for these corrupt politicians and government appointees to go scot free because of our blind politics. Any politician found to involve him or herself in any corrupt or dodgy deals should not be defended by the party he or she belongs to. They should defend themselves.
Where did the 130million or so go? People should stop defending these cr00cks. Let us all support the law to deal with them in order to serve as a deterrent to the current ministers and appointees of the current government.
Just cooperate by handing over all the illegally acquired properties. You can then plead for a "humane face".
Don't cooperate and see! massa you have no option than to cooperate. In your time, the police arrested people and raided their homes without warrant. Yet, people like Jinapor and the rest defended and justified it, claiming that "the police are doing their work". Even when a citizen was brutalized by the police and lost his eye, Jinapor, Omane Boamah and their likes saw nothing wrong with it. Indeed they commended the police for a good work done. Today, Jinapor understands what "humane" means? FIRE BURN YOU!
Masa; these MP's think Ghanaians are so stooooopid !!!!!!besides these ministers think they are above the law ; what this northner full Junipor and this Donkor and Dzata should understand is that the police have recorded intelligence about the AMERI deals because all they need is collaboration of the evidence ; these maggots are being monitored closely before the deal was signed ; the CID know and have evidence of such stilling and may have convinced a judge that there were grounds for the raid at Junipor 's and Donkors house ; these three NDC krooked thiffs should never underestimate the Ghana Police because they know what they are doing ;all their conversations have already being recorded and the evidence is there ; being an MP does not exonerate you from stilling or causing financial loss to ther state .