Dr Kofi Amoah, a Ghanaian businessman and economist, has said Ghana has become a looting ground for the powerful while the ordinary people suffer and retrogress.
According to Dr Kofi Amoah, the US court has gifted the Government of Ghana a torchlight and case records to proceed in identifying high-level Ghanaian officials and parliamentarians who benefited from “dumsor” loot.
Dr Kofi Amoah urged President Mahama to direct the Attorney General to pursue the matter and ensure that those responsible are held accountable, stressing that corruption must never pay.
In a strongly worded commentary on X, Dr Amoah wrote, “CORRUPTION MUST NEVER PAY, GHANA MUST ACT.
The US Govt through its Judicial Service has gifted to the Govt and people of Ghana a torchlight and case records to proceed in identifying high-level Ghanaian officials and parliamentarians who participated and/or benefitted from the corruption scandal in 2015, when President Mahama was in office.
Luckily, President Mahama is in office serving a second comeback term, and he has avowed his distaste for corruption with a popular policy directive nicknamed ORAL, Operation Recover All Loot.
Your Excellency, here is a clear, unambiguous one for you to add to your glowing list of illustrious accomplishments
Have your Attorney General pursue this case so that Ghana too can put teeth behind our avowed distaste for corruption and book the list of participants and beneficiaries of this “dumsor” loot
Our country has become a looting ground for the powerful whilst the ordinary people suffer and retrogress regardless of how hard they work.
If Ghana truly wishes to progress, it must exorcise one of the key impediments to our progress, CORRUPTION!!
The US court system, with cooperation from the UK Govt, has done the difficult part… the rest to book the culprits and corrupt Ghanaian officials is frankly up to President Mahama.
I have the feeling, my friend, the President, may act, a feeling…”
His comments follow the former TOR MD, Asante Berko, who was convicted by a federal jury in the United States over a bribery and money laundering scheme linked to a power plant project in Ghana.
Asante Kwaku Berko, a dual US-Ghanaian citizen, was convicted in Brooklyn on August 6, 2026, on all counts in the indictment, following a nine-day trial before US District Judge Diane Gujarati in the Eastern District of New York.
According to information gathered, Asante Berko and others conspired to pay more than US$1 million in bribes to Ghanaian government officials to help secure a multimillion-dollar power plant deal for Turkish energy company AKSA Enerji Uretim A.S.
The shady deal centres on a power plant deal that was under development and financing between December 2014 and July 2015.
However, details provided by US court documents disclosed that several Ghanaian officials allegedly received bribes to facilitate a power plant deal during Ghana’s power crisis in 2014 and 2015.
The US court documents further indicate that members of Ghana’s Parliament were among the alleged recipients of bribes
They disclosed that in August 2015, Berko and his co-conspirators discussed $250,000 in bribe payments to various individuals, including $46,000 to Members of the Ghanaian Parliament who had ratified the agreement between Aksa and the Government of Ghana, revealing that payment to the MPs was made by Berko himself.
See the post below:
CORRUPTION MUST NEVER PAY, GHANA MUST ACT
— CitizenKofi (@amoah_citizen) August 7, 2026
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