The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has accused the Majority in Parliament of deliberately obstructing investigations into alleged financial losses linked to the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod).
Oppong Nkrumah in a Facebook post responding to GoldBod Chief Executive Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, claimed the Majority has consistently blocked efforts to subject the matter to parliamentary scrutiny.
“You claim to welcome a probe, yet you have been evading a Parliamentary investigation into the Gold losses of billions of cedis since March 27th,” Mr Oppong Nkrumah wrote.
He further alleged that “your majority members in Parliament have been obstructing all the probes,” insisting that the truth would only emerge if Mr Gyamfi appeared before a formal inquiry “under oath in a Parliamentary Inquiry where documents will be presented and scrutinized.”
The Ofoase-Ayirebi MP challenged Mr Gyamfi to publicly support the parliamentary inquiry he said he initiated earlier this year.
“If you are as confident of your case as your posts suggest, be the loudest voice in your party today demanding that the inquiry I initiated on March 27th be allowed to proceed,” he stated.
Mr Oppong Nkrumah argued that the ongoing public exchanges were attempts to divert attention from what he described as “the Bank of Ghana’s substantial loss of GH¢34.9 billion” and accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of failing to uphold its promise of financial discipline.
According to him, the matter should not be reduced to a political back-and-forth on media platforms, but rather subjected to formal parliamentary accountability mechanisms.
“The Bank of Ghana’s 2025 accounts are not the responsibility of GoldBod’s CEO or the NDC’s National Communications Officer,” he wrote. “They belong to the Minister for Finance, who must present them to Parliament.”
He added that rather than engaging in public debates, the Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, should step forward to address the concerns officially before Parliament.
“Until he does, answers are only required from you in a Parliamentary inquiry on the record and under oath,” he said.
