Former President Mahama has rejected allegations by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government that members of his administration stole cars from the presidential fleet before leaving office in January 2017.
According to him, his administration left ‘a sea of vehicles’ for the new government led by Nana Akufo-Addo.
Speaking on GTV’s Moomen Tonight on Tuesday, the former President insisted that all vehicles used under his administration had been accounted for and Akufo-Addo was aware of them because it was part of the assets he showed him while he took him around the presidential villa ahead of his swearing in.
Mahama said his government handed over more than 400 vehicles to the new government, and there was no way members of his administration could make away with over 300 vehicles.
In March 2017, the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin alleged that over 200 vehicles from the presidential car pool were unaccounted for following the change of government on January 7, 2017.
But John Mahama suggested that the claims were false.
He said, “an inventory list of government assets were taken including vehicles and so all those vehicles were parked at the Flagstaff House. I remember when I took Nana Addo round and went into the Presidential Villa, you could see into the car park, and there was a sea of vehicles that were associated with the presidency.”
John Mahama added that “Nana Addo himself knows that those were the vehicles being handed over to him. That was about 430 vehicles back there, and so I think that allegation of 300 missing vehicles [is false]. Where are you going to hide that in this country?”
Mahama believes that the allegations were only meant to demonize his administration.
“It is part of the political rhetoric of demonizing the administration that is leaving, that they’ve stolen vehicles.”
While admitting that there may be a few unaccounted for vehicles, he called on the government to press charges if it insists some 300 vehicles were stolen.
“There might be one of two vehicles that might be misplaced but 300 vehicles missing, by now people should be arrested and prosecuted,” John Mahama said.
Source: citifmonline.com
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look at this man. who is talking abt what u left? we are talking about what u and ur team stole. the question is how many cars did u and ur team bought in the name of ghana govt? this is the number u shd be telling us and not what u left behind, like a father leaving hsekeeping money for the mother to take care of the children. when are say ndc is doomed u may think i am not serious but this is the evidence.
YOU MIGHT HAVE LEFT CARS BUT YOUR CRONIES STILL STOLE CARS OF GOVERNMENT FOR THEMSELVES. ANOTHER POOL OF CARS WERE GIVEN TO YOUR CRONIES FOR LESS FIVE THOUSAND CEDIS FOR CARS WHICH WERE NOT YET A YEAR OLD. PRESIDENT MAHAMA IS THAT RIGHT? IS IT STILL NOT CORRUPTION? THE LESS YOU TRY TO DEFEND YOURSELF AND YOUR APPOINTEES, THE LESS HARM YOU DO TO YOUR IMAGE. JUST KEEP QUITE AND LET THE LAW TAKE IT COURSE. THE MORE YOU TALK THE MORE PEOPLE GET ANGRY ABOUT YOU.
MAHAMA WE KNOW ROLAND AGAMBIRE (RLG) IS YOUR PROXY IN DUBIA.
There can be an inventory on paper but the items are not there.Shine ur eyes the people under u will take advantage of u and u shall bear the bad name though u r a good man.
That is the best way to go. If anyone claims to own such a property, an audit of their bank accounts and the works they did to be able to acquire the property must be done. BUYING A PROPERTY AND USING SOMEONE AS A COVER IS PURELY CHILDISH. YOU MIGHT LAND THE PSEUDO OWNER IN SERIOUS TROUBLE. SO IF FOR INSTANCE PREZ MAHAMA ACQUIRED PROPERTIES IN DUBAI, BUT USED ANOTHER PERSON TO COVER UP, THAT PERSON SHOULD HAVE HIS ACCOUNTS THOROUGHLY AUDITED.
Knowing you,you will surely buy an ocean of cars because each comes with a side kick. Every smart person will want to spend on tangibles to cover up for foul deals.
This John Ford Mahama and his greediness.....
If prez MahamAh admits one or two vehicles were not accounted for, why did the one or two vehicles go
I think it's going to be useful for the purposes of accountant for our leaders to respect themselves and to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If your appointees did not buy any of the vehicles you showed Nana (at 'donkomi' prices), then this so called list of 430 would be enough. How many of these vehicles were sold to your appointees? You can't show over 430, sell an undisclosed number and come to claim that you left over 400 and none is missing. Where else in this world can you account for properties this way? If you were not let by greed and you left the vehicles and asked your appointees to go and buy vehicles on the open market like all Ghanaians, would we be having this conversation? You should be prepared to share the whole truth or sh** - **. We are tired of you.