The Minority in Parliament has called on the President to immediately interdict the Chief Executive of the VRA, Dr Charles Wereko Brobby and dissolve the authority’s board of Directors to allow an independent inquiry to get to the bottom of the VRA crisis.

They have described the claim by Dr Wereko Brobby that he has stepped aside and appointed his deputy to act in his absence as administratively unacceptable since he will still be in control of affairs at the authority.

The Minority Spokesman on Energy, Seidu Adamu told the press that the committee purported to have been set up to investigate the issue is only administrative and therefore does not have the legal standing to inquire into a sensitive issue such as the VRA crisis.

He said the NDC deplores the nonchalant response of the government to the disturbing issues daily revealed at the VRA.

The minority cited among other things, an inordinate increase of 300 per cent in payments to Dr Wereko Brobby from about ?15.5 million to over ?60 million in December 2002 and said the attempt by the Auditor General to clear him from any wrong doing is crude and indecent.

According to Mr Adamu, the office of the President had been alerted by state intelligence agencies of the unreasonable high payments that are threatening industrial unrest in the VRA, long before the commencement of the current impasse.