The Minority in parliament will petition the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to probe the Addison Committee for accepting a sponsorship package from AMERI, a company it was investigating for alleged corruption, the minority spokesman on Finance has said.

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He told Citi FM: “I am going to take this matter to CHRAJ to probe the committee. I am going to petition CHRAJ for them to probe this company.

“For a government that claims it wants to investigate a contractor for wrongdoing, this contractor pays for your ticket, gives you a hotel, goes further to give you per diem and gave the committee members some money for the purposes of shopping.”

He hinted that the petition will be filed on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, after the Easter break.

He argued passionately that the Addison Committee failed to disclose the benefits they got from AMERI, a company it was investigating for wrongdoing in a power agreement it signed with Ghana in 2015.

“Clearly, they failed to disclose the matter, and what is the intent behind the failure to disclose the matter? In terms of materiality, the amount given to them and flying them first class is enough justification to make it material. Putting them in a first class hotel is worse, and the fact that they accepted per diem and shopping money from the contractor,” he said.

“What makes the matter worse is that I am hearing that since they came back, they made a phone call to ECG telling ECG to pay every unpaid invoice of AMERI.”

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The Addison committee  charged to review, restructure and recommend areas of amendment of the AMERI power deal, had recommended that the deal be renegotiated or abrogated on grounds of fraud, after it emerged that Ghana was made to pay 150 million dollars extra in commission to Africa & Middle East Resources Investment Group LLC (AMERI Energy) for the construction of the power plant.

AMERI in its agreement with Government dated February 10th, 2015, charged Ghana significantly higher than what it was charged by the Turkish registered company – PPR, which financed and executed the project, the committee said.