Private Legal Practitioner, Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo has advised the former deputy energy Minister John Jinapor to sue the Police Service for the recent raid in his house in connection with the AMERI deal.
The CID has since Monday stormed the residences of some former government appointees who are connected with the AMERI deal. According to the CID, the former government officials are being investigated for causing financial loss to the state.
Residences of former Power Minister Kwabena Donkor, a former technical adviser at the Energy Ministry, Francis Gyata, Deputy Energy Minister John Jinapor and former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General Dominic Ayine have been searched by the CID.
The Member of Parliament for Yapei Kusawgu constituency told the media after the police personnel and officers from the National Security raided his house that, he was only shown a search warrant but not given one.
Speaking on Citi FM’s news analysis show The Big Issue, Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo explained that since the police received a search warrant from the court, they should have equally served the Member of Parliament before raiding his house in the early hours of Friday.
The legal luminary emphasized that, once the officers did not serve the warrant to the John Jinapor legally, the search they undertook in his house was illegal and as such he can go to court to seek redress.
Meanwhile, the Minority has condemned the action and described it as an attempt by the government to silence vociferous members of the Minority.
The Ameri deal is a $510 million contract signed between the Government of Ghana and Ameri Energy during the power crisis for the supply of gas turbines to Ghana. It was to provide additional power to the national grid to ease the debilitating load shedding exercise that plagued the country at the time.
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