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Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu is the Health Minister

Ghanaians are mounting pressure on Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu to resign following some revelations in the report by the Parliamentary Committee that probed the Sputnik V vaccine contract.

This comes after Mr. Agyeman-Manu wrote to Sheikh Al Maktoum with whom he signed a deal to procure Sputnik V vaccines, to refund the money for the non-supplied doses.

The letter followed findings by the Committee tasked to investigate the deal, that "the amount of $2,850,000 (representing 50% of the contract sum of $5,700,000.00) has been paid to Messrs Al Maktoum despite the Minister claiming no payment had been made.

The amount which translates into the cedi equivalent of GH¢16,331,640 converted at the then prevailing exchange rate of US$1 to ¢5.73, was for the cost of 300,000 vaccines.

After the findings, Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu said the Minister should have resigned.

“You see that the report has made matters worse for him,” he stressed on Newsfile on Saturday.

Backing this stance, the New Crusading Guide newspaper Editor-in-Chief, Kweku Baako Jnr, agreed that the Minister has to resign.

“If he is minded to… resign, I will endorse it; I will vote for him if he were to do the honourable thing and just quit. You cannot defend this.”

Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Monday, Kofi Bentil stressed that Mr Agyeman-Manu breached every procurement process and constitutional requirements about the contract.

Thus, the Health Minister must be sacked, he emphasised.

In view of this, other Ghanaians on social media are also expressing their opinions with many asking for the Minister to be investigated.

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