The Acting Managing Director of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC), Sammy Gyamfi, has strongly refuted claims made by former Finance Minister Dr. Amin Adam, who stated that the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration never collected the 10% betting tax.
Responding to Amin Adam’s remarks, Gyamfi accused him of distorting facts and misleading the public. “They should say that they started implementing it on sports betting but they did not commence the implementation on national and private lotteries and that will be correct, but don’t say you never collected the tax,” he asserted.
Gyamfi further pointed out the contradiction in the former minister’s statement, questioning why Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia had promised to scrap a tax that supposedly never existed. “So if you did not collect the tax, why was Bawumia promising to scrap betting tax? So the tax was not in force, it was not being implemented, so what were they promising to scrap? They have been exposed,” he argued.
The controversy stems from Amin Adam’s press conference in Parliament on Tuesday, March 11, where he stated, “Ladies and Gentlemen, betting tax that they said they had abolished, we never collected betting tax. We never implemented the betting tax, so to come and tell Ghanaians that you have abolished something that was never implemented is to deceive the people of Ghana.”
In an exclusive TV3 interview on March 12, Sammy Gyamfi dismissed these remarks as “lies”, suggesting that either Amin Adam deliberately misled Ghanaians or failed to properly execute his duties as a finance minister. “Those are the words of a liar. Either he set out to lie to the people of this country or he was simply not on top of his work as a finance minister,” he stated.
