NDC withdraws suit on Sahara contract

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) said on Friday that it has withdrawn the suit it instituted against the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice in respect of the controversial Sahara oil contract.

It said in a statement in Accra that the party maintains that the suit has generated wide public interest and it is "fully satisfied that more justice would be done to the Sahara Affair if it were left in the public domain than if it were moved into the courts."

The statement signed by Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Chairman of NDC's media committee, said the party believed the interest of the wider public would be served better than an early legal case, which would "serve to abate any further public discussions of the scandal."

"In order not to stall the interesting debates and discussions currently going on in the Sahara case, which are very revealing, it has been considered more beneficial to avoid a tussle now to allow for adequate public participation," the statement said.