President Akufo Addo has dismissed calls for an independent probe into the $12.5 million Oslo, Norway chancery building controversy.
The minority claims the cost of the building has been bloated by 8.5 million US dollars.
On Tuesday, the Minority in Parliament called on President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo to open a full probe into what they say is the alleged inflation of the suspected Ghanaian embassy building in Norway.
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But speaking on the issue for the first time during his media encounter at the Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo said his administration will not be swayed by allegations which lack evidence.
“Throwing accusations against my appointees now a pattern of the opposition, when you debunk them, then they move to another…a lot of the time with the flimsiest evidence, this is the transaction that has not taken place, how then do you allege corruption…?,” the President queried while responding to a question on that”
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President Akufo-Addo also accused the opposition NDC and their minority MPs of engaging in baseless accusations without evidence.
He also predicted that such fabricated stories by the NDC will be worse in the 2019 ahead of the 2020 general elections but such moves will not distract his government.