Alexander Abban, the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa West, has punched holes in lawyer KT Hammond’s defence following the former Tor MD Asante Berko conviction.
According to the former MP, KT Hammond’s denials that his client never met Asante Berko, so he did not receive any bribe, are false.
He quizzed if one needs to see a person before you take money from him?
He admitted that, per his experience in the House and the way things operate in the country, he believes the said bribes were taken.
Speaking on Channel One TV, Alexander Abban stated, “Where is it that this… If you go to the ordinary market, let’s say it is GH¢10, but when the government is doing it, it is GH¢50. What nonsense is that? When the government is even doing it on a larger scale, should it not? Economics tells us that you have to get economies of scale from that, right? So the unit price must even go down. Is that not the case? But what do we see?”
“And for instance, me, all the denials and all those things from KT Hammond. I just listened to it and let it pass through my ear. It is not true… I live in this country. I’ve been in Parliament before,” he said.
He quizzed, “Do you need to see the person before you take money from him? Let me tell you that. People go into politics because it is lucrative. People are not going there to serve. They keep saying, ‘Oh, we are going to serve. We are going to serve,’ and all that. It is because it is lucrative.
“Tell me the logic of economics in this. If you are ready to spend as much as GH¢3 million, GH¢4 million, GH¢5 million just to enter Parliament, and your expected legitimate income is not up to that. What kind of financial logic is that? It’s because there’s something extra somewhere which you would get. Master, give us a break,” he said.
Meanwhile, KT Hammond has reacted to the conviction of Kwaku Asante Berko and the alleged $46,000 bribe said to have been paid to parliamentarians to aid the ratification of the agreement between Ghana and AKSA Energy in 2014 and 2015
The former Adansi Asokwa MP, who at the time served as the Ranking Member on the Energy Committee of Parliament in 2014 and 2015 during the period when the court proceedings in the US stated that Berko and his associates discussed paying bribes to Ghanaian officials, including parliamentarians.
According to KT Hammond, is he that bloody cheap to share $46,000 with 17 MPs on the Energy Committee?
He argued that the most repugnant aspect of suggest that he shared $46,000 with 17 other members on the parliamentary committee.
KT Hammond questioned how 18 MPs, together with their secretariat staff, could share $46,000, which meant each member was, on average, going to get $500 or $1,000?
Speaking on Citi FM, KT Hammond said, “For the sake of all that is making the rounds, people are taking one million…, and then the suggestion is that K.T. Hammond, and his [committee] we took about, $500 [each], because the money is supposed to be $30,000. Then you hear $10,000 somewhere, then some $6,000; they round it up to $46,000”.
“We had 18 people in Parliament (Members on the Energy Committee), and then the Secretariat and all of that; are they suggesting we shared that and each person got about $500 or $1000 or something?”
“Is K.T, Hammond that bloody cheap? Is that it?” he questioned.
He added, “Oh, uh, don’t ask me any more questions on that because you upset me. I have absolutely told you that my committee had absolutely no knowledge about that. We do know that the document came to Parliament for ratification. What we do in Parliament is not a sale of documentation or not a sale of any business.
Our mandated duty is to scrutinise documents and make sure that… think about it, we are only 28. We get 48, we only scrutinise and eventually take the document to the plenary of over 270 whatever people, 75, 76, so we take $46,000 for 30 something, and then what happens to the rest of the plenary, I mean, does this make sense?”
Also, KT Hammond has said his client, the former Power Minister Dr Kwabena Donkor, did not receive any money from convicted former Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) Managing Director and Goldman Sachs banker Asante Kwaku Berko.
According to KT Hammond, Dr Donkor acknowledged that he was the Minister responsible for Power in 2015 during the ASKA power project discussion, but had categorically denied receiving any inducement.
Watch the video below:
'For me, all the denials from K.T. Hammond, it is not true. Do you need to see a person before you take money from him?' – Alexander Abban, former NPP MP for Gomoa West, questions K.T. Hammond’s denial of former TOR MD Asante Berko's wrongdoing in the Aksa bribery scandal
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