A former Deputy Minister for Communication, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, is embarrassing the country in the sight of the international community by the way it is handling the issue of state vehicles handed over to it by the erstwhile National Democratic Congress government.
According to him, the NPP has not been truthful in dealing with the supposed missing state vehicles saga.
Speaking on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News on Friday, [February 10, 2017], Mr Kwakye Ofosu said, the NPP’s desire to rush to the media to make announcements without conducting the needed audit to reconcile documents of the cars, is improper.
“Let us not underestimate the kind of damage that this sort of behaviors does to our country because this news is on the BBC. There are those who may think that they are deriving some political mileage from this, but eventually, it embarrasses Ghana as a whole. It creates the impression that we are not a serious country and we simply cannot get this record-keeping right. And I don’t think it is proper. We don’t have to do this to ourselves,” he said.
The Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, revealed to the media on Wednesday [February 8], that there are so far 208 cars unaccounted for from the Flagstaff House’s vehicle pool, based on the assessment of some car models in the inventory.
His claims suggested that some officials of the immediate past government were in possession of the vehicles, but according to Mr Kwakye Ofosu, the NPP government must consult the relevant authorities at the various ministries, departments, and agencies to get information about the other vehicles it claims are missing.
“The fact that a vehicle belongs to the office of the president does not mean you will find it necessarily at the Flagstaff House; because these vehicles even though they belong to the presidency, are given out for the use of various government officials and agencies.”
“There is appropriate documentation covering all the cars. If any vehicle is taken out, it is well documented; and they have one of the best recording keeping system at the Presidency as far as logistics and vehicles are concerned; so it is very easy to reconcile. What you need to do is to speak to relevant officials who have possession of these documents and information to be able to help you with a broad picture as far as logistics and vehicles of the presidency are concerned.”
Mahama’s Ford gift part of vehicle pool
He added that, the $100,000 Ford vehicle gifted to former President John Mahama by a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, had been added to the state’s vehicle pool bequeathed to the new government.
“That vehicle is still in the possession of the Presidency. About 370 vehicles were handed over physically to the Ayikoi Otoo-led committee and that vehicle is part of it [vehicle pool],” he said on Eyewitness News.
Source: Citi fm
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Who defines what an embarrassment is? Is it professor Ofosu Kwakye? Okay so professor, according to you, embarrassment is when previous govt stoops so low to take from the people they have to serve instead. You buy V8 for a ridiculous amount in the name of law, as if you're robots without social knowledge. BBC is discussing it and you call it embarrassment? To me, as a Ghanaian, it is not an embarrassment at all.
Na who caused this so called disgrace on the Nation? It is the wanton greed on the part of your Government that is why all these woes have befallen on the Nation. How can a saloon car of 2015/2016 model sold to an outgoing Presidential staffer for Ghc3000.00 three thousand cedi if in doubt consult Sam George Ndc MP for briefing
Are you speaking again NDC shame on you all.
IF YOU STEAL THE WHOLE WORLD MUST KNOW YOU ARE CRIMINAL THE WORLD KNOWS GHANA NDC ARE BUNCH OF ***barred word*** AND CRIMINALS WHAT ELSE YOU DO WANT TO HEAR .JUST SIMPLE AS THAT.NOW ALL THE CHILDREN IN GHANA KNOWS WHO ARE THE CRIMINALS IN GHANA ,AND THEY SAY NDC.
Did you buy one?if yes you have embarrass your self not npp
MR KWAKYE OFOSU YOU ARE A BIG LIER YOU DONT WANT TO TELL THE TRUTH YOU ARE AFRAID TO TELL GHANAIANS THE TRUTH AS SAM GEORGE IS SAYING NOW.YOU HAVE SOLD MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED CARS TO NDC CRONIS FROM THE POOL OF CARS YOU SUBMITTED TO THE TRANSITION TEAM. INSTEAD OF SUBTRACTING THE TWO HUNDRED FROM THE SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY YOU DID NOT DO THAT. THIEFS ALL AROUND YOU KNOW GHANA IS BLEEDING AND YET YOU ARE SUCKING HER MILK,WICKED PEOPLE GHANAIANS WILL NOT FORGIVE YOUR YPUR ACTS.
Massa stay in your miserable opposition and get yourself a job. You and others like Omane Boamah cost your party the election. That is the real embarrassment.
Now they are being smoked out of their shock holes one byone. Govt. is not embarassing embarassing GhNa at all, it is only expossing NDC ***barred word***. I love it, I like it.