Akufo-Addo In Another US$ 2 million Thievery Over Phantom SkyTrain

A Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Transport, Hon. John Oti Kwabena Bless has sounded an alarm on another dubious deal by the Akufo Addo administration, involving US$ 2 million.

According to the allegation, the amount involves a questionable payment to unknown persons supposedly behind a Mauritian Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) known as Africa Investor Sky Train Consortium Holdings, which was supposed to have implemented a project for Ghana to have sky trains in 2019.

As MP points out, the sky trains never came and nobody knows what has happened to the US$ 2 million paid out. The money was paid for virtually no work done, he claims.

“What they have failed to tell Ghanaians is that they have handed out a hooping sum of 2 Million Dollars from Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund in a dubious deal to a Mauritius registered SPV known as Africa Investor Sky Train Consortium Holdings,” Oti Bless wrote.

Already, the Akufo-Addo government is notorious for having dubiously paid UK company, Kroll and Associates for no work done in 2017 and when former Auditor General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo surcharged Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo over it, President Akufo-Addo forced Domelevo into early retirement.

Hon. Oti Bless points out that the dubious payment to Africa Investor Sky Train Consortium Holdings is captured in the Auditor General’s report for 2019/2020.

“According to the Auditor General’s 2019/20 report, the government paid the $ 2. Million Dollars to the people on the 25th of February 2019 as premium for shares when the company didn’t have an “Airomovel Technology” License, there was no feasibility studies, no cabinet and parliamentary approval.”

He called on Parliament and the media to explore the issue so that the government will be brought to accountability.

“As a member of the parliamentary select committee on transport, I am calling on my colleagues on both sides of the political divide on the committee to take interest in this matter since we have been elected to represent and serve the interest of the people (Ghanaians). I also call on Ghanaians and the media, in particular, to investigate this matter to ensure that we get our money back,” he pleaded.

It is unclear if these pleas would have any impact as the government of Akufo Addo continues on the path of reported corruption with impunity.