Dubai-based businessman, Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, the man the Ministry of Health contacted for the botched procurement of 300,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine has expressed desire to refund an amount of $2,470,000 to Ghana.
Sheikh Al Maktoum agreed to refund the aforementioned amount after the Minister of Health, Mr. Kwaku Agyemang Manu wrote to him for requesting for a refund.
MrA letter dated August 2, 2021, and signed by the Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, and addressed to the businessman requested a refund of the amount paid for undelivered doses of the vaccine.
Mr. Kwaku Agyemang Manu in a letter said, “By this letter, I also wish to formally request for the refund of the remaining amount for the non-supplied doses, which should be the total amount paid to your office minus the amount due for the 20,000 doses you already supplied, in line with your earlier e-mail dated 25th July 2021 in which it was affirmed that on the 13th of April 2021, funds were transferred into your accounts as fifty percent (50%) advance for the initial batch of 300,000 doses.”
A letter purportedly from the businessman in which he has agreed to refund the said amount to Ghana is currently circulating within the Ghanaian media.
According to the said letter, Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum asked the Health Ministry to confirm the amount and provide account details through which the refund should be processed.
“We acknowledge receipt of your letter, Ref No. MOIVOM/LL1/7/2I, dated 2nd of August 2021, with a formal request to refund the remaining amount of the non-supplied doses from the 50% advance transferred to our accounts.”
We, hereby, request to kindly acknowledge and confirm the above-mentioned amounts to be refunded, further to which we shall initiate the refund process to your bank account. Please share with us the bank details where the refund needs to be processed,” portion of the letter from the Sheikh Al Maktoum stated.
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