A project being implemented by the Ministry of Communications and Digitalization has prompted the member of parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to reveal that he has petitioned the World Bank.

Ablakwa said last week that Ursula Owusu Ekuful, the sector minister, had awarded a contract worth US$48 million without PPA permission using documents from the Public Procurement Authority (PPA).

He provided more information, which the minister disregarded as an instance of moving the goal posts on the matter.

On July 12, 2023; the lawmaker published a formal petition he had submitted to the World Bank a day prior seeking a probe into the "irregularities, misrepresentation, insider dealing & conflict of interest," around the US$48million Ascend Scandal.

He captioned his tweet thus: "Yesterday I petitioned @WorldBank to launch investigations into the litany of irregularities, misrepresentation, insider dealing & conflict of interest relating to the US$48million Ascend Scandal & how that was used to fraudulently secure a US$49.5m WB funded eTransform project."

The senior investigator for the World Bank in Washington, Ms. Maria C. Mallo, was the recipient of the eight-page petition. According to Ablakwa, the anti-corruption policies of the bank served as the foundation for his plea.