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They should sit with the company, settle it and see if we can complete the power agreement and make good use of it.” A London court in a ruling on Wednesday, June 8, refused to grant the government of Ghana an extension to apply to set aside the award – adding that the state’s grounds for challenging it were “intrinsically weak”.
We could have taken the plants and kept them, instead of just terminating the contract…We should hold Akufo-Addo responsible because he terminated the contract.” Mr Mutawakilu also dismissed suggestions by the Attorney General that investigations would be conducted into the contract which was signed under the erstwhile Mahama administration.
The government through its lawyer Godfred Dame had attempted to hide behind the 2020 general election and the COVID-19 pandemic as excuses for the delay, but their excuses were dismissed by the London court.
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