agyapa deal

The Ministry of Finance has debunked claims that the Agyapa Royalties transaction has been suspended.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has completed the corruption risk assessment on the Agyapa Royalties deal and forwarded its recommendations to the Office of the President.

The Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin Amidu, claims his criminal investigations on former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Mr Adjenim Boateng Adjei, have been delayed because his investigators have been compromised.

Yesterday, I took off sometime to listen to discussions on JoyFM’s Newsfile show on the ongoing Agyapa Royalties transaction the Government of Ghana is seeking to undertake. Interesting to me however was how one of the concerns of the CSOs was cursorily tossed off the discussions. This regards the matter of Beneficial Ownership. In his queries, the host, Sampson Lardi Anyenini, questioned Imani’s Bright Simons on any proof they had of Beneficial Ownership. He wanted to know this because the Deputy Finance Minister, Adu Boahene, who was also on the show, explained that the Government of Ghana was going to be 100% shareholder of Agyapa, following which 49% shares will be shed off in an IPO on a UK exchange to raise an amount of $500million; where shares could be purchased by interested investors.

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) says it is disappointed in the police for going to the extent of obtaining a court order to stop them from demonstrating against the controversial Agyapa mineral royalties deal.

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu: Good Morning. Thank you for responding to our call, once again, at such short notice.

Regarding the current raging controversy over the Government of Ghana’s intent to allocate all future royalties tied to mining leases that produce virtually all of Ghana’s gold, i.e. the two Agyapa Royalty Special Purpose Vehicles, I’m not sure I’m going to be writing a lot about the subject given my current schedule.

Written By Yaw Sompa - Risk Assessment is an interesting part of risk management, a field of practice that is exciting and challenging for the mere reason that, it is a determination in probabilities. Like the proverbial needle in the haystack, it is analyzing likelihoods of events and costs or impacts of those events, when the events do occur. If one is fortunate to be a quant, models come in handy, ‘opinions’ as they may be, become only subject to the rigour of the method. If the risk assessment is however qualitative, then bless your soul, because you are challenged from the beginning with all the difficulties of personal bias and heuristics.

Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has disclosed that the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori Atta visited his home when he was compiling his report on the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal.

The Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin A.B.K. Amidu, has begun investigations into the Agyapa Mineral Royalties transaction.

Capital is needed for development. From time immemorial Ghana has sought to borrow this capital. We have been raising bonds, taking loans and giving sovereign guarantees. All these raise our debt to income ratio. As a country, the more we borrow, the more we increase our debt to income ratio, the worse our credit rating becomes and the higher the interest rates we get when we go back to borrow more.