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A self-professed member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who claims to have introduced Isofoton SA, to the Kufour Administration, has warned leading members of the erstwhile administration to �shut up� over the issue of payment of wrongful judgement debts or risk being expose. A clearly irritated Matthew Addai said he cannot fathom why leading NPP members like former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye and former Chief of Staff, Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani; who he claims are privy to the facts of the issue, would spew lies on the matter and also have the moral justification to call for the prosecution of a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice (in the Mills� administration), Betty Mould-Iddrisu. �I am very surprised these two people would come on radio to peddle such untruths, with regards to the issue, despite the fact that they are in the know as far as the truth is concerned�I am ready to come and have a press conference and disclose everything regarding Isofoton�so that all will know the wrongs done to Isofoton,� he said. Mr. Addai, further asserted that, he introduced Isofoton to Hon. Ken Dapaah, the then Minister of Energy and also lead him to Spain for the signing of the agreement, stressing that �if these people turn around to claim Isofoton did not have any contract, then it is not true�. Matthew Addai�s assertions comes on the heels of a Supreme Court ruling, which declared the payment debt to the Spanish firm Isofoton SA as illegal and further ordered the refund about $400,000 to the Ghana government. This ruling, however generated intense public discussions on the role of certain individuals, in connection to the payment of the as judgment debt. It was during one of such discussions on Okay Fm; that the former Chief of Staff reiterated that, the ruling affirms his earlier position that the Spanish firm had no contract with the government of Ghana to warrant any payment. Mr. Mpiani also rejected claims that the debt controversy emanated from him because he cancelled the contract signed with Isofoton. �No individual can cancel a contract of the government. In government no individual can cancel a contract the government had signed. Any individual who does that will be sacked and for that matter I would have been sacked if I cancelled that of Isofoton,� he stressed. Prof. Mike Ocquaye, on his part, prayed that �everybody who was involved� in the payment of over US$325, 000 to Spanish energy company Isofoton S.A �be seriously punished�. Prof. Mike Ocquaye, who was Energy Minister in 2005 when the bidding process was opened, told the media the company had �no contract with the State� nor did it render any services to the country to warrant the demand of such a payment. ��The fact is that they never reached the stage of having a contract�they never won a contract; they never had a contract�, Prof. Ocquaye insisted.