HYPOCRISY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. COLLECT THE ABACHA LOOT FROM RAWLINGS FIRST.

HYPOCRISY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.

IF MARTIN AMIDU IS REALLY AN ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADER, HE SHOULD THEN TELL THE WHOLE WORLD THE AMOUNT OF THE LOOTED NIGERIAN TAXPAYERS MONEY ABACHA GAVE HIS BOSS JERRY RAWLINGS.

RAWLINGS COLLECTED STOLEN CASH FROM ABACHA. IF AMIDU IS NOT AWARE, THAT IS ANOTHER GARGANTUAN THIEVERY.

LET MARTIN AMIDU RECOVER THE MONEY FOR THE NIGERIANS. THE SWISS BANKS ARE RETURNING SOME OF THE LOOT STASHED IN THEIR VAULTS.

CORRUPTION IS CORRUPTION EVERYWHERE. DON’T CHOOSE AND PICK.

CHARITY BEGINS FROM THE RAWLINGS HOME.

You can assassinate me, for all I care – Martin Amidu flares up
Source: Ghana | Myjoyonline.com| Isaac Essel | isaac.essel@myjoyonline.com | twitter @isaacessel
Date: 22-03-2015 Time: 11:03:02:am

Martin Amidu

Anti-corruption crusader, Martin Amidu has stated unequivocally that he is ready to lay down his life for the sake of fighting corruption in Ghana.

Revealing life-threatening moves he alleged are being orchestrated by former National Security Coordinator Col. (rtd) Gbevlo-Larty on him, the former Attorney General assured he would soldier on with his determination to expose corruption especially in government.

In a statement issued today, Mr. Amidu who is remembered for his unflinching legal battle against NDC financier Alfred Woyome in the fraudulent ?51 million judgement debt payment, warned he would expose Mr. Gbevlo-Lartey should he persist to spread falsehood about him.

“There are other things to be said about my latter relationship with Gbevlo-Lartey after I left office should he persist in peddling untruths about me to which he has no personal knowledge.

“He had used cajoling with promises, threats, and intimidations on me with the singular intention of shutting me up. I will not now be cowed and thugs can be sent to assassinate me should the Government or anybody wish, for all I care! “

Below is his full statement

MARTIN AMIDU NEVER DECLINED TO COMMENT ON GBEVLO-LARTEY’S ALLEGATION- RE: GBEVLO ATTACKS AMIDU: BY MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU

I read a news item in the Daily Guide and on Ghanaweb both of 20th March 2015 with the title: “Gbevlo-Lartey Attacks Amidu over Woyome & Betty.”

One Samuel Baubeng, who always made it his business to be present at the courts when I was pursuing the Woyome, and Isofoton cases in the Supreme Court, and my end of service entitlements in the High Court has been kind enough to forward to me excepts from Gbevlo-Lartey’s and Sampson Lardy Ayenini’s facebook walls on this matter as well.

The Daily Guide story was published under the name of my good friend Charles Takyi-Boadu who alleged in relation to this story that: “When DAILY GUIDE contacted Martin Amidu for a reaction, he declined to comment.”

My answer to Charles Takyi-Boadu is contained in my e-mail to him on 20th March 2015 as follows: “I see that the above news was published under your name and created the impression that: ‘“When DAILY GUIDE contacted Martin Amidu for a reaction, he declined to comment.”

You indeed called me but it was about Tony Lithur’s and I told you I would get back you with a written reply. You never made me aware that you had anything from Gbevlo-Lartey to report let alone to give me an opportunity to comment. Kindly do the decent thing as an ethical journalist by telling the public that you lied when you published that you contacted me for a reaction and I declined to comment.’

I also told Takyi-Boadu that: “The conversation between Larry Gbevlo-Lartey and Sampson Ayenini has been forwarded to me and I have read it. You appear to have embellished the discourse in your article with commentaries that are intended to mislead the public to provoke a response from me.

I refuse to take your bait. I disagree with Larry’s understanding of my statement and his version of the facts. I will not allow you to reap the benefit of embellishing what he said on face book by provoking me to reply to your version and your intention to set us up for a fight to sell your paper.”

I am yet to read a retraction from the Daily Guide but it is important the public knows that I was never informed by the Daily Guide that it had any story from him it intended to publish the next day. Even in the case of Lithur, Brew & Co’s rebuttal, I did not refuse to comment.

As I told Takyi-Boadu in my e-mail: “You indeed called me but it was about Tony Lithur’s and I told you I would get back to you with a written reply.” Samuel Buabeng has already on his own and in my defence given a fitting reply to Gbevlo-Lartey on his facebook wall which I endorse entirely even though I would have advised him to hold his guns awhile.

Consequently, I will be letting him and the public down by still refusing to react for fear of any fight. Gbevlo-Lartey threw the first stone and no one can blame me! Suffice it to say that all rational people know that any assertions that Larry Gbevlo-Lartey knew everything that happened in the Mills/Mahama Government just because he was National Security Co-ordinator are patently obvious and irredeemable presumptuous lies.

I had ministerial responsibility for security and intelligence as Minister of the Interior, and as Attorney General I was principal legal advisor to the Government and would not convey legal advice to the President through a National Security Co-ordinator, a subordinate officer under the 1992 Constitution.

Gbevlo-Lartey had an open and public grudge against Alfred Agbesi Woyome over some party primaries involving the former’s son in the Volta Region prior to the scam going public. As the Attorney General, I did not know even Woyome in person let alone to have any personal grudge against him.

My duty was to advice the President in accordance with my constitutional mandate without fear or favour, affection or ill will to prosecute all those involved. Should Gbevlo-Lartey not have recused himself from this whole Woyome investigations, the reports, and prosecution when he was in office because of the prior personal and public animosity between them on grounds of conflict of interest?

As for the incident of 13th January 2012 that he claims to know so much about, he was not present during the main discussion. Gbevlo-Lartey and Danquah, his deputy, came into the President’s office, the forum, after the discussions had concluded and the meeting was being adjourned to 3 pm to enable Captain Kojo Tsikata and Alhaji Iddrisu Mahama to join the meeting.

He cannot, therefore, be talking of what really took place at that meeting from personal knowledge but from hearsay.

The 3p.m meeting never came on when I presented myself at the office of the Secretary to the President to await the meeting. Captain Tsikata came for me from the Secretary’s office to the Chief of Staff’s conference room for a “two-man”.

My understanding was that he had been mandated by the President to convince me to rescind my decision to submit my resignation to the President. Is Gbevlo-Lartey aware of the conversation and assurances Captain Tsikata whom I have had great respect for since our service together in the PNDC and NDC 1 & part of 2 gave me that convinced me to stay on and pursue all those implicated in the Woyome scam in the Court to its logical conclusion?

That was the reason I amended the Writ and Statement of Claim that I filed in the High Court and was present myself in Court on 16th January 2012. There are e-mail discussions between Gbevlo-Lartey and myself on the draft amendment before I filed them at the behest of Captain Tsikata and the late Kofi Awoonor.

Was Gbevlo-Lartey consulted when the President delegated the then Member of the Council of State and my senior brother, Alhaji Iddrisu Mahama on 18th January 2012 who invited me to his house with the demand from the President that I withdraw in writing my press statement of 12th January 2012 or be dismissed? I told Ahaji Iddrisu Mahama to convey to the President that I was ready for any eventuality and will not ever withdraw that truthful press statement.

The next day, 19th January 2012 at 1 p. m I was handed a purported letter of termination of appointment with immediate effect only for a letter on the President’s official green stationery to go to the press under the signature of John Martey Newman stating that I had been dismissed for misconduct. Later, representatives of the Government alleged that my misconduct was that I had failed at the meeting to name the Ministers of State involved in the Gargantuan crimes.

That is when I wrote to the press and the public that I had named those Ministers in a report dated 6th January 2012 which the President had requested from me when I met him in New York on or about 15th December 2011, a copy of which I had addressed to the National Security Co-ordinator (for purely strategic and tactical reasons). I never classified the report for good reasons.

I made a press statement about Ministers of State involved in Gargantuan crimes. I also advised the President of my intention as the Attorney General to prosecute Woyome along with all his accomplices and to persuade the then Attorney General to be a witness or be prosecuted. I am then invited by a Member of the Council of State (incidentally Betty Mould-Iddrisu’s husband) at the behest of the President and told to withdraw my press statement accusing members of the Government and its card bearing members who use the NDC as an insurance against prosecutions for crime.

The next day the President true to his demand through Alhaji Iddrisu Mahama purports to dismiss me with immediate effect. Am I, therefore, wrong to contend that I was removed from office to prevent me from prosecuting the offending NDC Ministers and party members that raped the nation?

But I proved the Government wrong after leaving office in obtaining favourable decisions in the Supreme Court that shows that Ministers of State indeed flouted the 1992 Constitution in raping the consolidated fund for friends and NDC party financiers contrary to the NDC’s own values and Constitution. The Supreme Court decisions are final and no one can challenge my position on this matter as expressed in my press statement of 12th January 2012 – some of the names are expressly or impliedly contained in the Supreme Court judgments.

Gbevlo-Lartey after his sudden and unexpected removal from office may be seeking to curry favour with the Government by pretending to know everything that happened before I left office. I would want Gbevlo-Lartey and his type in the NDC to know for the avoidance of all doubts that on 4th September 2014 a High Court entered judgment in my favour recognizing that my alleged dismissal for misconduct was illegal, and wrong as it was without due process of law.

But has Gbevlo-Lartey forgotten that his actions in sending officials of the BNI to search my residence, arrest me and detain me for hours on 6th December 2012, without a Court warrant on the very eve of 2012 Election when tensions were very high in the country could have caused mayhem in the country if I had invited the media and others to my residence that day?

I refused to be used by him as a scape goat in causing any upheavals that might lead to confusion and God knows what, at the nick of the elections! Does Gbevlo-Lartey know whose votes would have been affected most if I had made his illegal search, arrest, and detention at the BNI public on that day even if the election still went ahead?

Did Gbevlo-Lartey have the authority of the President to cause the search, my arrest and detention on the eve of an election with dire probable consequences for the nation? He did not! The President told my emissaries latter that he was not informed, was not aware, let alone to instruct him on that critical day in the nation’s history: the President undertook to deal with the matter. I prevented whatever unconstitutional intentions, if any, Gbevlo-Lartey might have had to use me innocently for: I preserved the dignity of Ghana as a democracy!

There are other things to be said about my latter relationship with Gbevlo-Lartey after I left office should he persist in peddling untruths about me to which he has no personal knowledge. He had used cajoling with promises, threats, and intimidations on me with the singular intention of shutting me up. I will not now be cowed and thugs can be sent to assassinate me should the Government or anybody wish, for all I care!

I am sending this rejoinder out at the weekend so that it does not on a working day detract from the real issues of the perception that the Government and the Attorney General were not bent on sincerely prosecuting Woyome and all his accomplices or retrieving the judgment debts ordered by the Supreme Court.

The intention to overwhelm me with personal attacks by agents of Government and the NDC some of whom may selfishly and greedily be seeking only to build their personal stomach infrastructure at the expense of the Republic will not succeed because those who have ever worked with me know that I was a work horse for the Governments I served and I still have the same energy to protect and defend the Constitution of Ghana as by law established even during my retirement.

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Akufo-Addo returns vehicles #OCCUPYGHANA

Akufo-Addo returns vehicles

Published On: August 13, 2009, 00:00 GMT

Nana Akufo-Addo, former Foreign Affairs Minister and presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party in the December elections, has returned two official vehicles to the ministry.

The vehicles, a Nissan Patrol four-wheel drive and a Toyota Landcruiser four-wheel drive, were described as generally in good condition.

Confirming the return of the vehicles in a letter to the government, a copy of which was made available to the Times, Abdulai Amadu Abukari, acting Director of Estates and General Services Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who signed on behalf of the Chief Director, said: “I wish to report that the abovementioned vehicles were returned to the Ministry on 8th February, 2009.

“They are generally in good condition, except that vehicle No. GT 5621 T (Nissan Patrol 4×4) has a discharged battery and GT 1983 x (Toyota• Land Cruiser 4×4) has faulty starter brushes,” it said.

A source close to the government said “we received a confirmation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.”

Nana Akufo-Addo left government and launched his bid to become the flag-bearer of the NPP in August 2007.

Meanwhile, a number of NPP Ministers and functionaries yesterday called on telephone to the Times to protest about the reported retrieval of 39 high-performance vehicles from them by the NDC government.

Kan Dapaah, former Defence Minister, Ama Busia, Member of the Council of State, Kwadwo Mpiani, former Chief of Staff, D.K. Osei, Secretary to the ex-president, and the wife of Joe Ghartey, former Attorney-General, and O. B. Amuah, former deputy Minister of Sports, all said they drove the vehicles to the Transitional Secretariat and handed them over to the team in charge of Executive Assets. They insist that the vehicles were never retrieved from them; they voluntarily returned them.

Naa Bortei-Doku, daughter of Mrs Mary Chinery-Hesse, Special Adviser to former ex-President Kufuor, also called the Times to say that the official car assigned to her mother never spent a night at her mum’s residence.

She said as a routine the car picked her mother from the house each morning for work and brought her back in the evenings after which the car was returned to the Castle. .

The ‘’Times’ published yesterday that 39 vehicles were retrieved from President J.A. Kufuor and other members of the former government, and party functionaries.

PREZ OBAMA HAS THE DEAD GOAT SYNDROME TOO.

AFTER ALL THAT THE EVIL GOP ARE THROWING AGAINST OBAMA DUE TO HIS COLOR, IF THIS GUY CAN STILL HAVE A LAUGH LIKE THIS, THEN HE MUST HAVE HAD THE DEAD GOAT SYNDROME TOO.

JUST LIKE HIS EXC. JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE GHANA ARMED FORCES.

President Obama Guts Republican Scandal With One Hillary Clinton Email Joke.

IF I WERE DR KWAME NKRUMAH, I WOULD HAVE POPPED ABOUT A HUNDRED CARTONS OF CHAMPAGNE. FOR THE MIGHTY HAND OF THE LORD HAD ELIMINATED THE DEVIL WHO WANTED TO KILL YOU THROUGH EVERY DIRTY MEANS. ………………………………………………….Mr. Pratt, Nkrumah Wept Tears Of Joy!

Mr. Pratt, Nkrumah Wept Tears Of Joy!.

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. HAS GONE MAD. AN AKAN WHO HAS FORGOTTEN HIS ROOTS AND CULTURE. IF A DOCTORATE DEGREE CAN MAKE ONE FOOLISH, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE. ……………………………….. ..Who Is More Dangerous Than You, Mr. Kojo Yankah?!

Who Is More Dangerous Than You, Mr. Kojo Yankah?!.

Voter Fraud:What would be the motive for keeping Scotland in the UK? Was the Scottish Independence Referendum Rigged to Fail?

Voter Fraud: Was the Scottish Independence Referendum Rigged to Fail?.

CORRUPTION – KUFUOR’S CARDINAL SINS. FROM THE ARCHIVES.

13 October 2007

CORRUPTION – KUFUOR’S CARDINAL SINS
By Kwabena Mensah Obrampah

Corruption is a subject that defies simple definition. But by and large, and for the purposes of this article, it could be defined as the willing receipt of monetary considerations for or not rendering of official duties or services in political, civil, or public office. Corruption is considered one of thecardinal sins against the people and one of the principal causes of poverty and the perpetuation of of underdevelopment especially in third world nations such as Ghana. Corruption has been the subject of numerous studies, discussions, symposia, for, you just name it, by numerous institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Amnesty International, Transparency International, Human Rights Watch, among others. In Ghana such institutions as the Ghana Integrity Initiatiative, and the Third World Network have done a lot of work on the subject.
Corruption as a social evil rests more with the political, civil and public office holders than any other segment of society. These institutions are among the prime holders and controllers of the public purse, or through whose supervision cetain vital functions of state have to be performed. It is for these reasons that politicians and the other public office holders come to mind readily with the mention of the subject of corruption. In Ghana, corruption has occupied a notorious place in our public discourse right from the days of the first republic under Osayefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah when he was so concerned that he issued his famous edict of the dawn broadcast in 1965, in which he admoninshed his ministers and party functionaries of the dangers of graft and excessive desire for worldly materialism.
At the beginning of the forth republic, former President J.J.Rawwlings was so concerned about the public perception of corruption and had to commit some of his ministers to investigation by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). As a result, four cabinet ministers in that regime lost their jobs. In 1979 at the height of the revolt of junior officers and other ranks of the Ghana Armed Forces, six senior officers among whom were two former Heads of State lost their lives through public executions because of corruption.
It was in the light of these developments that when President J.A.Kufuor declared his “ZERO TOLERANCE FOR CORRUPTION” at his inauguration on the 7th of January, 2001, the whole nation rose up in arms in his support. For once everyone thought that the fight against corruption so relentlessly and ruthlessly waged by President Rawlings would be maintained by the in-coming Kufuor regime. President Kufuor and his men did not waste any moments before starting to execute their new agenda with such a missionary zeal that everyone thought the best in the fight against corruption in Ghanaian public and political life had arrived. Little did we suspect that zero tolerance for corruption was a political ploy to unleash selective justice on leading NDC government operatives. As a result, Messrs Victor Selormey, Kwame Peprah, Ibrahim Adam, Sipah Yankey, were all to have been imprisoned under what Kufuor termed his fight against corruption in Ghana. Victor Selormey the former Deputy Finance Minster in the NDC administration was to suffer death as a result of his incarceration at the Nsawam prison.
The first major signals to indicate that Ghanaians were in for the shock of their lives came at Cape Coast in 2002 or there abouts when President Kufuor in delivering his address at the NPP’s annual national congress of that year declared that :
(1) corruption could not be irradicated because it was part of human kind since it started in the days of Adam and Eve, and that it was as old as creation itself.
(2) That many people had attempted to bribe him with loads of money but he had asked them to hold on and come later because the time was not ripe then.
Those two confessions by the President were to open the floodgates for unmitigated corrupt practices in Kufuor’s NPP government in particular and in Ghanaian public life in general. Since then numerous corruption scandals have broken out in the Kufuor administration, a few significant ones of which are listed below. Readers are particularly encouraged to rejoin this article with knowledge of any hidden corrupt practices in the Kufuor government that they know of, but which have not been captured yet. We undertake to treat all information in this regard with the utmost confidentiality deserving of a newspaper of our calibre.
** Ghanaians would remember that barely a year ago the former Chairman of the NPP Mr. Haruna Esseku, personally accused President Kufuor of receiving bribes(kick backs) from Contractors, and that the President had turned his office at the Castle into an NPP finance office and was personally disbursing monies for party activities thereby sidelining him and the party executives. The president had since not been able to deny Esseku’s revelations. As a result of those revelations Mr. Haruna Esseku has been ostricised from the party and prevented from contesting the Chairmanship of the NPP at their last congress in Legon in 2006.
** Mr. Eric amoateng, I do not know whether to call him honourable or dishounourable, a serving NPP Member of Parliament for Nkoranza North has been arrested in the United States of America for smuggling drugs into that country, said to be worth some six million dollars($6,000,000). Eric Amoateng the dishonourable has since voluntarily pleaded guilty to the crime and is now awaiting sentencing in the United states.
** Alhaji Moctar Musa Bamba, former Member of Parliament for Wenchi East and Deputy Minister for Presidential Affairs was accused by a colleague minister of visa racketeering, forgery and extortion of money. The interesting aspect of this scandal was that Alhaji Bamba had his office at he corridor to President Kufuor’s office at the Castle. Yet he had the guts to carry out such nefarious activities right under the nose of the President at the highest corridor of power in this land without flinching for a second. The worst or was it the best that President Kufuor could do in such a case was to ask Bamba to leave quietly.
Are forgery and extortion of money by a serving public officer not crimes punishable under the laws of Ghana?
** President Kufuor himself who should have been the epitome of morality as the number one citizen, the father of this nation was accused of fornication and adultery by his former Economic and Financial Adviser MS. GIZEL YATZY, who claimed on public radio that she had had an affair with the President for over a year.
The affair she claimed had resulted in her having twins with President Kufuor whom she named Phillip and John. President Kufuor even though confronted at public fora on a number of times had staunchly refused to speak on the issue. The example this disgraceful behaviour gives to Ghanaians of a public official taking advantage of his position to morally corrupt an employee working directly under him is instructive indeed. What lessons in morality and uprightness does this episode teach our youth and children.?
** The same Ms. Gizel Yatzy has accussed President Kufuor of having used his position to blackmail one Mr. Saoud, a Ghanaian –Lebanese businessman to let him part with his hotel in the vicinity of the President’s private house at Dzorwulu in Accra, using his son Chief Kufuor as a front for the transaction. This affair violates the constitution of Ghana which forbids the President from engaging in any activities for profit while in office. When the matter came up before the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Ms. Gizel Yatzy was simply refused a visa by the NPP government to come to Ghana to testify.
** Taking a cue from the moral bankruptcy of the President, Dr. Richard Anane former Minister of Health and later of Roads Transport, also engaged in extra marital affairs with Ms. Alexandra O’Brien an American citizen while he was on an official trip to the United states attending an AIDS conference. He was accused of fornication and adultery having an unprotected sex with Ms. O’Brien .
**in similar manner, Honourable Kwamena Bartels has taken a cue from Prresident Kufuor hidding behind his son to buy a hotel, to also arrange in Ghana government guarantteed loan of over four billion cedis for his daughter and his son-in-law.
** Mr. Isaac Amoo the Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organizaation was recent tranfered from his position for procuring moth infestd rice worth billions of cedis for distribution to the victims of the northern floods dissaster .
He was merely transfered to another department at the Ministry of Interior.
**President Kufour has established an Office of Accountability at his office which does not report to the ghanaian public. This has encouraged ministers, government functionaries and party officials to endulge in corrupt practices without the fear of being exposed or punished.
Corruption has to do with morality. Society must be built on a strong moral foundation if we are not to create Sodom and Gomora of biblical times in Ghana. No one bears greater responsibility to set good examples for society than the President of the Republic. So far, what we have seen and heard of the conduct of our dear President, the number one citizen of Ghana leaves much to be desired of a leader worthy of emulation.The above are but a few of the corrupt practices that have broken out during the six and half years of President Kufuor’s tenure of office.
The reason why these scandals have not gained the desired currency and effect as they should have had was because the Kufuor regime had taken definite steps to blunt the effectiveness of the Ghanaian media by “buying off” the best of the cream of Ghanaian Journalists with government appointments and patronage of those in active practice. The time to wake up and fight back is now .
Corruption! Corruption!! Corruption!!!
STEALING IN THE NAME OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS NPP STYLE

10,000,000 HERE, 10,000,000 THERE.

10,000,000 HERE, 10,000,000 THERE.
Folks what is this thing about this figure. I quite remember during the Kufuor regime, an office called THE ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE was set up at the office of the President. The office was headed allegedly by Prof Sai. And the seed money was 10,000,000 Cedis. GHC or CEDIS.

http://www.google.com.gh/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCIQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ghanaweb.com%2FGhanaHomePage%2Ffeatures%2Fartikel.php%3FID%3D170666&ei=VhwaVJ3tH-jb7AaBqoDQDA&usg=AFQjCNHNLuoUIQ8c-mqTjamz7QR9Yy7TFg&bvm=bv.75097201,d.ZGU&cad=rja

The office was set up due to the noises Ghanaians were making about the rampant corruption that bedevilled the Kufuor regime.

Prez Kufuor when asked about the essence of the office even though the CHRAJ was also in existence by then, boldly told Ghanaians that the office acts as an advisory body to the Ministers and Appointees who got involved in issues of corruption, so that it is treated in-house.
“We dont want to wash our dirty clothes in the full glare of the opposition, for it to be used against us” he remarked.
Ghanaians never had any inkling where that money went. It was a situation the NPP calls today CLS: CREATE, LOOT and SHARE.

Today we have another office in the name of THE YES INNITIATIVE headed by the former head of the Brazil 2014 Black Stars Supporters program. The seed capital is the same figure. This time it is GHC10,000,000. The purpose is said to cater for some youth business idea.

Hon. Kojo Adu-Asare, who controlled the Brazil program and transparency was not a vocabulary he ever heard of, is a man many Ghanaians think should not be given such a huge responsibility.
The way and manner this honourable man handled the supporters program left a sour taste in the mouths of many taxpayers. The non contract dealings he had with those Travel and Tours Agents are grounds many think he should be removed by the appointing authorities as soon as possible.
If the Mahama administration do not want to be seen as condoning corruption, then the earlier Hon. Adu-Asare is sacked, the better.

The NPP should not be given any leeway to say the NDC is as corrupt as them.

DO NOT GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME JUST TO HANG HIM.

TRUTH STANDS.
Nana Yaw Ampofo Ankrah II
Yaw Ampofo-Ankrah

Why was Yaw Ampofo Ankrah not in Holland or the USA for the friendly tours with the Black Stars but in South Africa? And how come his name was not tagged with any PER DIEM issue?

Digging deep and from my reliable sources he even never spent a minute at the Black Stars Village in Brazil. He was not given anything in terms of the daily allowances the Ambassadors and the Operational Team guys collected. He was not connected to Ghana in anyway in Brazil.

No caterer or Travel Agent mentioned his name.

It is on record that he did some apaa for SuperSport Football and not for the Black Stars. His hands might have been full by the engagement he had with the SA outfit.

I strongly believe he is just one of the many guys due to their love of football hanged around the committees preparations. And by the doctrine of collective responsibility, many of us tagged him once we heard he was with the media committee. He was not amongst the main actors.

Apologies to Yaw. I have nothing to tag Yaw with except the mention of his name by Ackah Anthony, the Media Committee Chairman concerning the text message he is alleged to have sent. This is yet to be proven if Ackah can produce the txt msg. As things stand today lets give the guy his deserved clean bill of health certificate until proven otherwise by things yet to be revealed.

We hope he gets his day at the Commission to clear his name.

Respect.

GFA – THE HIGH MORAL SOCCER WORLD IS WATCHING YOU.

Monday 25th August , 2014 6:16 pm

World football governing body, FIFA, has announced that they have referred the matter concerning match-fixing allegations made by British newspaper,Telegraph against the Ghana Football Association back to the West African country’s football association.

The announcement was made in a press statement released on Monday by FIFA after it had completed initial investigations.

The announcement says that the Ethics Committee of the GFA must now handle the matter and find a resolution to the issue which first came up in June.

During the 2014 World Cup, the UK-based paper Telegraph newspaper published conversations between GFA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi and some match organisers that stated that friendly matches could be fixed in favour of Ghana.

Subsequently, Kwesi Nyantakyi denied these claims and threatened legal action against the Telegraph newspaper.

FIFA’s statement reads as follows:

“The investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has concluded a preliminary investigation in relation to alleged match manipulation involving officials of the Ghana Football Association and a players’ agent licensed by the same association.

It followed articles published by UK newspaper The Telegraph between 22-24 June 2014 and the airing of the Dispatches programme “How to fix a football match” on Channel Four on 23 June 2014 that made claims of an alleged case of match manipulation linked to the organisation of international friendly matches involving Ghana’s national team.

The preliminary investigation, conducted in accordance with art. 62 of the FIFA Code of Ethics, included a request for documents and information from the relevant parties. Based on an analysis of the material, which included the limited portion of the footage made available by the relevant media outlets, and pursuant to the relevant rules established by the FIFA Code of Ethics, the investigatory chamber has decided to refer the matter to the Ghana FA.

In light of the seriousness of the allegations, the investigatory chamber will continue to monitor the investigations and any future proceedings conducted by the competent bodies of the Ghana FA, and reserves its right to revisit its position on this matter at any time.”

WHAT IT MEANS

What FIFA is saying is that, they have enough confidence in the GFA’s internal mechanisms to handle this issue.

However, FIFA, in the statement, has made it clear that they will still keep their eyes on the matter and will intervene as and when needed to find closure to the matter.

By: Nathan Quao/citifmonline.com/Ghana