Jake Accuses Mills Of Diversionary Tactics

National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, believes the Mills-led NDC administration is using the recent Cabinet decision not to sell the No 2 Mungo Street Ridge residential landed property to him, to deliberately divert attention from the... ...�94 million judgment debt paid to Construction Pioneers (CP) following the 6-3 Supreme Court verdict on his �Bungalow Saga�. The NPP insist Ghanaians have been shortchanged by CP and also hold the view that former Attorney-General, Madam Betty Mould-Iddrisu and Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffuor cannot absolve themselves from blame and prosecution since Cabinet had denied authorising the payments to CP. Indeed, the Minority Leader, Hon Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, at a press conference held last week said President Mills should not be allowed to continue to preside over such a rot and called on him to immediately authorise the appropriate agencies to plunge into the CP "dole out" which "stinks to the high heavens". It comes on the heels of the landmark ruling last Tuesday by the Supreme Court dismissing, by a 9 � 0 decision, claims of corruption, conflict of interest, abuse of office and cronyism file against the NPP National Chair by two deputy ministers of state; Messrs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and Dr Omane Boamah; and 6 � 3 decision that the process used in acquiring the property, contrary to the claimants� claims, was not unfair and illegal. 48 hours after the ruling, government issued a statement saying despite the Supreme Court�s decision on �Mr. Obetsebi Lamptey�s immoral acquisition of a State Property� it was no longer selling the bungalow and land property at the Ridge residential area to him (Jake). But the NPP National Chairman says he is not perturbed by cabinet�s decision on the sale of the bungalow and strongly believes it is just a move to divert attention from the CP dole-out.