The Akufo-Addo administration’s side of the Transition team had no hand in the ordering of some 43 new vehicles for the Presidency, according to a deputy Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah.
Speaking on the authority of the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, who was the co-chairman of the Transition team, Mr. Oppong Nkrumah asserted that “there was not even a conversation of this kind to purchase new vehicles or to even request for new vehicles.”
A former Presidential staffer in the Mahama administration, Dr. Clement Apaak, had disclosed that his government ordered some 43 new vehicles a few days before leaving office, upon the request of the incoming Akufo-Addo administration.
Dr. Apaak also noted that, the Mahama administration agreed to the request by Nana Akufo-Addo’s side because they felt that the security of the incoming president was of importance.
But speaking to the claims on the Citi Breakfast Show, Mr. Oppong Nkrumah recalled that, “in all the transition meetings that we attended and in all the matters that we discussed, I had never heard of this matter.”
He noted further that “the minutest of requests” are put on paper, so Mr. Apaak was free to substantiate his allegations, with respect to the order of the cars.
“The first step when somebody makes a claim like this will be to ask him whether or not he can back this verbal claim he is making… with some sort some proof that indeed shows that this request was made before we escalate it to this level of conversation.”
Aside from this, in the Deputy Minister’s view, it would have been an oddity for his side of the transition team to insist on the previous government buying the vehicles because, “you would want to then come in and even make your own choices, even for security reasons, etc.”
Potential judgment debt Documents sighted by Citi News revealed that the contract for the new cars for the Presidency was awarded by the Mahama government on the 3rd of January, 2017, to Amalgamated Security Services LTD.
However, the contract is in limbo following the recent moratorium placed on the purchase of new vehicles by President Akufo-Addo.
Checks by Citi News reveal that the said vehicles have already been purchased and are currently in Dubai and there are fears government could pay a judgement debt if it cancels the contract.
Source: Citifmonline
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THE EV1L MEN DO WILL FOREVER LIVE WITH THEM AND SLEEP WITH THEM. NDC WILL NEVER GO FREE, THEY'LL SURELY GO UNPUNISHED. GOD'S WRATH WILL SWEEP THROUGH THE PARTY LIKE TSUNAMI MARK MY WORDS. THEY'LL SUFFER! MAHAMA AND HIS CRONIES WILL SUFFER THE PRICE. THEY'LL GNAW THEIR TEETH AND BEG FOR DEATH! NDC WILL NEVER KNOW PEACE!
They lied when they were in power; they lied their way out of power and continue ti lie in opposition!!! What at all is this?
Mr. Mahama and his corrupt,crook and incompetent NDC ***barred word*** never stop lying when caught redhanded,what a shameful party!J.J can describe their ***barred word*** brigade better.Never again will Ghanaians allow these ***barred word*** to come and destroy us,may they rot in opposition.
Apaak and his Ndc have lied their ways in opposition and still 1ying paa .
...And he was President?
If Ex. Mahama preferred Toyota and not Ford, what made his think he could order for another President who obviously has his own preferences as well?
JOHN MAHAMA'S GREED AND CORRUPTION HAS TAKEN GHANA BACK ANOTHER 50 YEARS, NO DOUBT HE IS CLAMORING WITH HIS GANG OF TIE VES TO CONTEST AND CONTINUE THE CORRUPTION. WHY ON EARTH SHOULD JOHN MAHAMA SIGN A CONTRACT ON THE 3RD JANUARY 2017 TO PURCHASE 43 CARS FOR THE PRESIDENCY IF NOT TO OVERPRICE THE VEHICLES FOR THEIR USUAL CHOP CHOP. I WEEP FOR GHANA.
THE NDC BOUGHT THE CARS ON THE BLIND SIDE OF THE NPP BECAUSE OF CHOP CHOP. THE AVERAGE PRICE OF THE CARS WELL OVER USD200,000.PER VEHICLE SHOULD TELL YOU WHY THE NDC WILL NOT LEAVE THE INCOMING GOVERNMENT TO DO THE PURCHASING. SOME GROUP IN THE NDC WANT MAHAMA TO CONTEST AGAIN BECAUSE WITH JDM, THEY ARE ASSURED OF THEIR CHOP CHOP. (abi you see Papa Jay knows his party members better when it comes to unbridled greed and corruption)
NDC did so to top up for with their chop chop.
NDC people and cars..... This will give them chance to hugely inflate the prices... create, l00t and share in full operation to the last day of John Mahama in office. What they stole for 8 years not enough. We must never allow such a character as Mahama to come near our presidency again. He is incompetent, very greedy and corrupt.