General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadu has challenged former President John Dramani Mahama to report information on corruption in the current government to the mandated investigative institutions.
The former President, he said, should report the evidence of corruption allegations he has gathered on the NPP to any of the enforcement agencies including the Special Prosecutor for investigation and prosecution.
According to him, unlike President Nana Akufo-Addo, Mr. Mahama cannot and has not been able to make any bold statement to tout his incorruptibility because of his personal involvement in a lot of corruption scandals that plagued his administration.
John Boadu threw the challenge at a press conference on Thursday to counter an assertion by the former President that the NPP administration has stolen Ghana’s money and that he can ensure accountability through elections.
“Extremely rich, coming from a party credited by the Supreme Court of Ghana, with the ability to ‘create, loot and share’ public funds with impunity.”
“Is Mahama, of Government Official One infamy and the Ford vehicle from Kanazoe Contractors, talking about corruption? Is that the same Mahama whose government signed onto a half-baked contract of $1.2 billion for the Ghana Retail Payments Systems Infrastructure,” he scoffed.
“Sibton Switch Systems Ltd has just lost an arbitration demand for $478 million from Ghana for revoking that agreement. The Akufo-Addo administration did a far more enhanced project for only $4.5 million.”
“On the Sibton Switch issue, the Bank of Ghana, as we all know, has won an international arbitration of $478million against Sibton Switch Limited. The case at the London International Court of Arbitration (LCIA) also saw Sibton Switch being ordered to make a substantial payment to the Bank in respect of its legal fees and costs of the arbitration,” he added.
Elaborating on the case, the NPP scribe noted that Mr. Mahama’s good friend, Roland Agambire was at the centre of being granted unbudgeted contracts without even PPA approval and paid upfront before services; and used some of the money for homes in Dubai and for paying media houses for NDC adverts for 2012.
The biggest money heist, he said, was this Sibton contract and indicated the fallout from the exposé was that the contract, was awarded at a cost of GH¢4.6 billion under John Mahama.
According to him, billions of dollars were quoted under the previous administration but the NPP government built the system for less than US$4 million.
“Is it not more worrying that all dubious deals under Mahama were carried by the RLG man? Mahama advised Agambire to go into hiding after the elections. The NPP government saved the country billions of dollars which have helped the government channel resources into projects like Free SHS, planting for food and job, 1D1F, etc,” he said.
He argued that John Mahama proved to be so corrupt that during his time as Vice President, the late President Mills had cause to set up a committee to investigate the role he played in the processes leading to the acquisition of five aircraft (5) including Embraer 190 Aircraft and hanger for the Ghana Armed Forces.
Source: MyPublisher24.com
