GPGC: JAILING PEOPLE WILL PUT PEOPLE INTO CHECK-LEGAL PRACTITIONER

GPGC: JAILING PEOPLE WILL PUT PEOPLE INTO CHECK-LEGAL PRACTITIONER*

A Lawyer has unearthed that the country's failure to bite those whose negligence cause the country to pay needless debts attributes to the continous payment of judgement debts.

The private legal practitioner, Mr Bobby Banson called for prosecution of government officials whose decisions resulted in the country having to pay unwarranted judgment debts.

Until people prosecuted and jailed he said, the menace of the judgement debt payment will continue to hit the country.

“If you put people into jail it will keep people in check. We may not get the money back but if you put people into jail it will deter potential thieves in the system.

“We have to put person A, or person B before a court of competent jurisdiction, have a dispassionate trial, jail them if they are found guilty. This will put people in check,” he stressed.

He explained that the government is going to pay interest on the 170 million and also the legal fees the company paid to its lawyers to handle the case.

This, he said, will shoot up the amount to over 200million dollars.

But sharing his view on the cancellation of the GPGC, the Research Analyst of the Institute of Energy Security (IES), Fritz Moses noted to Nana Ampratwum on Silver FM's Omanbapa Morning Show that Ghana could have avoided the $170 million judgement debt it is going to pay to Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC).

He said the reasons given for the termination of the contract were ‘flimsy.’

“This could have been avoided,” he added.

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