The Minister of Health, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, has refuted claims by the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, that, the ministry spent $34 million on ambulance spare parts deal with Service Ghana Auto Group Limited.
Speaking before the Government Assurances Committee of Parliament on Thursday, August 1, Dr. Okoe Boye indicated that, the said amount has not been paid to Service Ghana Auto Group Limited not even one dollar.
“I spoke to one of the Deputy Governors who I had a working relationship with when I was at Health Insurance and the Deputy Governor made me aware that not even a dollar has been given to the provider.
“She used some terms that it is actually a letter of credit and that it is when the provider has actually performed, and supplied parts to certain tunes that they are empowered to pay for the work done. And so the governor made me understand that they have it with them, but they have not paid”, he said.
