Fadi Daboussi, a staunch New Patriotic Party (NPP) member, has told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairperson Abena Osei-Asare to leave the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) Chief Executive Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, alone to work.
According to Fadi Daboussi, Abena Osei-Asare lacks the moral authority to criticise Sammy Gyamfi over his management of GoldBod, urging critics to allow the young man to focus on his work.
Speaking in a self-recorded video, “I decided not to comment on public issues lately, but these recent issues are just too irritating”.
“Leave the young man (Sammy Gyamfi) to work. All he said was true. Under your tenure as the Deputy Finance Minister, you took loans without parliamentary approval. The former administration squandered money,” Daboussi alleged.
“Shame on you, Abena. You were one of the people who supervised policies that caused economic crisis in this country. Today, you are going on demo and criticising Sammy Gyamfi. You’re very annoying,” he said.
“GoldBod is not like selling roasted ripe plantain and groundnut. It is precious minerals. So, what is GH¢2.2 billion loss? It is even an insignificant amount,” he fumed.
His comments follow recent calls by Abena Osei-Asare for President John Mahama to conduct a full-scale investigation into the Domestic Gold Purchase Programme.
Abena Osei Asare, the Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee and former Deputy Finance Minister, has called on President John Mahama to demand accountability over the reported $1.7 billion loss incurred by the Bank of Ghana(BoG) through its dealings with GoldBod cited by the IMF.
According to Abena Osei Asare, the matter requires thorough investigation, stressing that the amount involved is significant and could have been used to support other sectors of the economy to create jobs and improve livelihoods.
Osei-Asare said the alleged loss represented resources that could have been invested in critical sectors such as healthcare.
The PAC Chair argued that recruiting thousands of unemployed nurses with part of the money would have reduced unemployment and generated tax revenue for the state
She further questioned the discrepancy between the Bank of Ghana’s 2025 financial statement, which reported a US$214 million loss, and the IMF’s Article IV consultation, which put the figure at US$1.7 billion.
Speaking in a video on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, Abena Osei Asare stated, “The Minister of Health is complaining about the fact that he needs GH¢ 6 billion to recruit nurses. And here we are, with approximately GH¢ 22 billion going down the drain”.
“IMF comes, IMF is privy to all the data and everything and says, no, the loss is not US$214 million as recorded, but US$1.7 billion,” she said.
“We expect some transparency. We expect some accountability and not contradiction in numbers, as is being put out there,” she added.
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