Deputy Information Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has condemned Danquah Institute Executive Director, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, for his claims that 10 per cent of the $3 billion facility being sourced by the Government of Ghana from the China Development Bank was meant for "chop chop" for unknown persons he said were facilitating the deal. According to Ablakwa, Gabby's comment does not only impugn corruption, it is also dangerous and has the potential to deprive the nation of desired future partners. It "is very, very unwarranted, it's not acceptable," he told Radio Gold's Alhassan Suhuyini Friday morning. "What Gabby said was very dangerous and it is dangerous because it is inimical to the progress of the country. It has the tendency to dent the image of the president, the government and the nation. Investors would look at Ghana negatively and parties in thins arrangement like the China Development Bank and future parties who would want to do business with Ghana would be having second thoughts, because when you make such statements that impugn corruption, that while we are going to parliament with this facility and while in his opinion we are rushing, it does not remember that we started this whole arrangement a year ago when the president visited China in September. "So far as some of us are concerned, we were so anxious and so excited that it has taken too long, but painstaking work has to be done; we had to identify the projects, we had to fit it into the Ghana Shared Growth Development Agenda, which is the president's vision for transforming this country. And if after all this painstaking work, many trips back-and-forth; China - Ghana, CDB officials coming down, Ghanaian officials going there, Gabby Otchere-Darko just puts out there that there is an arrangement fee and there is a certain 10 per cent which is for people in this deal, meanwhile Gabby Otchere-Darko has a copy of the agreement and the master facility agreement section 11 talks about fees, and nowhere in this is there a facilitation fee or an arrangement fee because this is a direct facility, we are dealing with the CDB directly, and even to impugn corruption and "chop chop" as has been widely reported since he made those statements yesterday, is very, very unwarranted, it's not acceptable, that is why we are demanding an immediate substantiating or a retraction and an apology because this is not the way to go..."