Lawyer Augustine Obuor, formerly of the Attorney General’s Department, is challenging the police to investigate the “fraudulent” contract between the government of Ghana and Waterville Holdings Limited.He suspects that since the contract has been declared illegal by the Supreme Court, documents covering the contract could have been forged.Waterville had maintained that it won an open bid and was consequently awarded a contract to rehabilitate the Accra and Kumasi stadia and construct three new ones in 2006 in Ghana’s preparation to host the 2008 African Cup of Nations.But the Supreme Court last week ruled in favour of Mr. Martin Amidu, who took the contract to court, ordering Waterville to pay back to the state an excess of 40 million euros it received from the Kufuor administration illegally.The court Friday held that the payments involved contracts that required parliamentary approval, a process it said was side-stepped and therefore rendered the contract unconstitutional.Meanwhile, former Attorney-General Martin Amidu has challenged claims by the A-G's Department that it helped him in his fight to retrieve the money that was wrongly paid to Waterville Holdings Ltd.But Mr Augustine Obuor told Joy News the exchanges between the A-G’s Department and Mr Martin Amidu is “irrelevant” at the moment.“The most important thing is that politicians must take care of state resources. ...
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