Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe, a founder member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said he is very troubled by what appears to be a cooked exoneration of parties implicated in the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) affair.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic on the matter, he said, “Ghanaians are smart and know corruption when they see it, and it is for the Akufo-Addo administration to prove Ghanaians wrong, especially when rumours are rife that some of the implicated persons are close to the President.”
Background
Investigations jointly conducted by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) on the sale of contaminated fuel by BOST have exonerated the Managing Director (MD) of BOST, Mr Alfred Obeng Boateng, from any wrongdoing.
“It is not the case that the MD of BOST owns the company that bought the product. It is not true that the address or phone number of Movenpina is the same as that of the BOST MD.
“The investigations so far carried out by the state security agencies and the NPA show that on the basis of previous practice, there was no wrongdoing at BOST on the sale of the five million litres of contaminated product,” the Minister of Energy, Mr Boakye Agyarko, said at a press conference in Accra last Tuesday.
“Further to our intention to set up a ministerial committee on this matter, the ongoing investigations by the BNI and the NPA have so far established the following findings, which have informed our understanding and assessment of the situation:
“The contamination of the five million litres occurred on January 18. This was before the current BOST MD assumed office.
“BOST, as a matter of practice, has sold contaminated products as far back as 2014. Over eight million litres of contaminated fuel was sold in 2015 and over 12 million litres sold in 2016. The five million litres sold is less (in quantity) than that for 2015 and 2016,” Mr Agyarko further said.
The minister said the absence of refining capacity at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) precluded the possibility of saving the contaminated product through a refining process.
Respect for due process
However, in the view of Dr Tamakloe, it is even more troubling because it adds to incidents that have fuelled the perception that the Akufo-Addo administration has no respect for due process.
“As we speak, the persons captured on video assaulting a senior police officer at the Flagstaff House have never been brought to book. Party vigilantes who have physically invaded courts or assaulted state officials have gone scot free. The President condemns these incidents in public but himself does nothing to ensure compliance with his own orders,” he recalled.
All of these events, in the opinion of Dr Tamakloe, were seriously undermining President Akufo-Addo's credentials as a defender of the rule of law.
“This is not the Akufo-Addo with whom many of us stood shoulder to shoulder against tyranny and impunity, even at the risk of our lives,” he concluded.
Dr Tamakloe said President Akufo-Addo was also risking the integrity of the NPP, which is the standard bearer of the rule of law in Ghana.
Source: Daily Graphic
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TYPICAL AYIGBE/EWE PEOPLE. AS LONG AS THE PERSON IS ONE OF THEM, THEY WILL BLINDLY AND INWARDLY DEFEND THE PERSON. THEY ALWAYS WANT TO REAP WHERE THEY HAVE NOT SOWN. ***barred word*** TRAITORS AND PARASITES ON THE STATE. ALL LOOOOTING IN THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION WERE BY THESE INWARD LOOKING PEOPLE. YOU CAN ENVY THE AKANS AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE BUT, WE ARE MORE HARD WORKING AND BETTER PLACED TO MAKE IT ON OUR OWN GENUINELY THAN YOU HATERS. IT IS IN YOUR MAKE UP TO HATE THOSE THAT ARE BETTER THAN YOU. NYAHO TAMAKLOE IS ***barred word*** OF NANA ADDO HENCE THIS BUNKUM. ***barred word***
Dr.You never believed in Akuffo Addo Presidency which we do not care.Dr if you have any contrary information per your own intelligence to BNI finding put it forward than your hatred towards Nana Addo
NPP for you. NPP praised JJ for undermining the party he founded, Nyaho-Tamakloe has now become a villain for opening his mouth to condemn NPP. Nyaho be careful because your people have introduced acid-bath into our politics.
Nyaho Tamakloe please I think you have to keep quiet when issues about NPP are being discussed. It is NPP which has made you somebody today. We are not going back to the past. If you abandon a ship during crisis and the ship is able to dock safely you are NEVER mentioned in 'dispatches'. You fought in the trenches and what came out? Traitors are never recognized or appreciated. Tell the whole world what is wrong with the BNI report. What has the report said which is not true. PLEASE IF YOU LIVE IN A GLASS HOUSE DO NOT THROW STONES.
Nyaho is suffering severely because his John Mahama has been exposed for taking his cut in the pilfering and pillaging, Awuah-Darko was furiously engaged in at BOST, leading to the huge loss of cash to Ghana and the collapse of this country, on the back of such rottenness, which his John Dramani Mahama was gleefully and exultingly enmeshed in. I bet Nyaho even benefited from that rottenness and is suffering thus his funny comments, comments not even a JSS 1 pupil will make. Awuah-Darko will now cough even single pesewa back and Nyaho shoukd tell his John Dramani Mahama to do the right and proper thing, and give it back to Awuah-Darko because if he doesn't the Special Prosecutor will do his or her job for Ghana well well, so very well Ghana and the whole of Africa will go agog.
NPP Guys, don't be emotional and defensive about this matter, what is wrong is wrong. No name calling what we all want is a proper investigation into the Bost matter fullstop. The President's credibility and his utterances on the fight against corruption are also on the line. l hope and pray he will use this opportunity to prove to all and sundry that his word should be taken seriously.
WHEN THE LAW CAUGHT IBRAHIM MAHAMAH IT WAS HARRASSMENT BUT WHEN IT EXONERATES BOST BOSS IT IS NOT RULE OF LAW. HOW CAN GHAN MOVE FORWARD IF WE HAVE SUCH PEOPLE AS ELDERLY MEN IN GHANA. I WILL ALWAYS CRY FOR MOTHER GHANA FOR THESE SELFISH AND PEOPLE WHO ARE FULL OF HATRED FOR THEIR COLLEAGUES: I PITY YOU MOTHER GHANA.
YOU CAME ON RADIO ACCUSING NANA ADDO WAS ONLY HARASSING YOUR NEPHEW BECAUSE OF YOU AND THAT HE DID NOT OWE THE STATE ANY MONEY. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE END? HE WAS SIMPLY STEALING FROM THE STATE SO WHEN THE TIME COMES HE WILL FACE THE LAW, SO BE PREPARED. YOUR NEPHEW IS A NATION WRECKER, PERIOD.
I THOUGHT YOU SAID NANA ADDO CANNOT BE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE IS NOT A UNIFIER SO WHAT DO YOU WANT HIM TO DO? YOU DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM SO WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? "ANY ***barred word*** CAN GO TO COURT",SO YOU CAN PACK YOUR TREACHEROUS SELF AND GO TO COURT. HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YOUR LAST INTERVIEW BEFORE THE ELECTIONS? IF YOU HAVE, SOME OF US HAVE NOT. YOU ARE IRRELEVANT IN OUR PARTY BECAUSE WE CHERISH LOYALTY NOT BACK STABBERS.