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Kwabena Tahiru Hammond should spare Ghanaians his �crocodile tears�, Dr. Sekou Nkrumah has stated. The former Deputy Minister of Energy almost shed tears as he gave testimony before the judgment debt Commission, Monday, about the whereabouts of US$3.5 million of US$24 million realized from the sale of a drillship in 2001 belonging to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. An emotional and near-teary K.T. Hammond complained to the Commission about how bad press concerning his role in the vessel�s sale, was virtually killing his mother. ��My mother is dying because of this�, he cried to the Commission. However, Sekou Nkrumah, youngest son of Ghana�s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, told XYZ that: �Even people are now�shedding crocodile tears and so on�. According to him, �who cares about your mother or grandmother in the village?� An amount of US$19.5 million of the sale proceeds was allegedly used to pay off a judgment debt award slapped against the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) in favour of French Bank Societe Generale by an English Court. US$900,000 was deposited into an escrow account to settle GNPC�s indebtedness to some of its creditors and suppliers while US$100,000 was used to pay legal fees concerning the sale transaction. The missing US$3.5Million, according to K.T. Hammond and his former Boss, Albert Kan-Dapaah, was deposited into an account of the Government of Ghana at the Ghana International Bank in London on the orders of the then Acting High Commissioner, Chris Kpodo.