The Executive Director for the Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP), Benjamin Boakye, says despite President Akufo-Addo's interest that the Agyapa Royalties bargain is removed from Parliament for more extensive commitment, no such thing has been finished.
He expressed that what the Finance Ministry has been doing, all things considered, is to put together meetings where participants have practically zero information about the Agyapa arrangement and in this way can't inspect, and test the arrangement as it ought to.
As indicated by him, the Finance Ministry is yet to connect with learned people and Civil Society Organizations on the arrangement.
"We saw some similarity to counsel, one in the University of Ghana which was broadly announced and you did not know what's going on with this entire exchange, to have the option to investigate what government needs to do. So they had similar individuals who are supporting the exchange communicate their perspective and leave the room," he said.
Thus, he said there has been no tremendous change to the broadly dismissed Agyapa bargain.
In the interim, he noticed that the Ministry of Finance has been forcefully attempting to avoid basic inquiries raised about the Agyapa bargain.
"Past that, we have been following a few activities, attempting to bypass this entire counsel process through some reengineering of conventions with foundations like GRA, GIPC, to layout reciprocal speculation settlements with Jersey to dodge a portion of the basic worries that common social orders have had," he said.
He added that the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has since taken up a guarded stance and has neglected to benefit himself to be examined about the arrangement.
"What's more, it was uncovered in any event, listening again to the Finance Minister, the inquiries you posed to him about whether he will do the scholarly commitment on the respectability of the exchange.
"[He] has not been accessible as far as we're concerned to cross-examine what he's attempting to do, but to say in an old-style continuous flow design, that if you're against the exchange, you might be against the messenger of the land, and not prepared to truly profit himself for us to investigate why he needs to offer the most gotten stream of income in the mining business into the speculative venture as he's looking to do," he said.
"We thought the expressions of the President were incomparable and individuals planned to comply with that to guarantee that the interest of the state truly is high over everyone's advantage in attempting to comprehend what we are finding ourselves mixed up with and so that us could see what better choices are accessible for improving the mining business overall and in addition to the sovereignties," he added.
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