Herbert Krapa plotting to kill me – Energy Mins. PRO

Head of Communication and Public Affairs at the Ministry of Energy, Nana Kofi Oppong Damoah has alleged government’s spokesperson on Governance and Legal Affairs, Herbert Krapa is plotting to kill him for defending the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko over the revised AMERI deal.

He said Mr Krapa sent him threatening messages and later called him to stop maligning the cousin of the president, Gabby Okyere Darko for criticising the Energy Minister.

“I was very surprised because I have not done anything. All I have done is explain the Ministry’s position on the AMERI deal” he told Accra-based Adom FM on Monday, 6 August 2018.

Nana Damoah said he has reported the threat to the East Legon police for further action.
Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sacked Mr Agyarko over the controversial $150 million Ameri deal signed by the John Mahama administration.

Mr Agyarko came under heavy criticism when he claimed that Ghana will gain $405 million from the new power deal with Ameri Energy but instead, it was discovered that the country will rather lose up to $472 million.

The Energy Ministry however also said, the President Akufo-Addo was not misled into approving the controversial Novation and Amendment Ameri deal as being claimed by some people.

The novation and amendment agreement, seeking to buy out the $510million deal Ameri Energy has with the government and be handed over to a third party Mytilineos for 15 years, received an executive approval from President Akufo-Addo   on July 31 after parliament refused to ratify it.

Under the new agreement, the new company, Mytilineos International Trading Company, will take over the management of the AMERI power plant for 15 years.

The new company has offered to pay AMERI an amount of $52,160,560, with the government paying the remaining $39 million to the Dubai-based AMERI Energy to wash its hands off the deal entirely.