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The Minister for Finance, Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta has expressed Government’s readiness to engage and broaden consultation to fill any communication gap in the Agyapa Royalties Transaction. The Ministry will in the coming days, meet with various organized groups.

The attention of the Ministry of Finance has been drawn to a publication on Ghanaweb on 3rd September stating that Government has suspended the Agyapa Royalties transaction after a meeting with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on Wednesday 2nd September, 2020. 

Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has given assurance of the nation’s readiness to host the next African Development Bank Annual Meetings in 2021. The decision to have the next meeting hosted possibly in May 2021, in Ghana was arrived at during the Bank’s Virtual Annual meetings in Cote d’lvoire, which ended on Thursday, 27, August 2020.

The Calendar is developed based on the Net Domestic Financing in the 2020 Budget, the domestic maturities and the Medium Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) for 2020-2023. The Calendar shows the securities that are intended to be issued in respect of Government’s Public Sector Borrowing Requirements for the period September to November, 2020.

Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister for Finance at a press briefing today said the Agyapa Mineral Royalty Limited arrangement was the best deal for Ghana’s gold. Government, he revealed was excited about the listing of Agyapa Royalty Company in London as the first royalty company of that nature in Africa.

The Ministry of Finance has been made aware of a recent article published anonymously on 10th August, 2020, on the website Open Source Investigations (OSI) and carried on other local electronic and print media. The article is a clear misrepresentation of the facts as it relates to Ministry of Finance’s contractual relationship with, and fee payments to, KRL International LLC.