The Cabinet of president Kufuor will meet Thursday in what is dubbed an ?extra ordinary cabinet meeting? to discuss the report of the Auditor General which has accused two ministers of state of embezzling funds and causing financial loss to the state.
The two ministers involved, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister for Information and Presidential Affairs and Kwamena Bartels MP and Minister for Private Sector Development will be expected to tell the president who has so far maintained cool headedness in the aftermath of the report which is damning to his government, their side of the A-G?s report which they both described as unfair.
The president is reported in ?The Independent? to have told his men to remain calm whilst they wait to have the issue discussed at Thursday?s crucial meeting.
The Auditor-General?s report, we are informed is supposed to be a query for the ministers involved to answer some of the allegations leveled against them.
Strangely, the report somehow found its way into the hands of the minority leader, Alban Bagbin, also chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament.
According to a report picked up from The Independent, ?other credible sources have hinted that Vice-President Aliu Mahama and Foreign Affairs Minister, Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, whose companies were cited for conflict of interest in the Special Project report, are also expected to answer questions from the president and some of their colleagues at Thursday?s meeting.
Although unconfirmed, The Independent says it was informed that the Acting Auditor General would also attend the cabinet meeting as a non-cabinet member due to the role of his outfit in the whole saga.?
Many people have expressed shock at the report which has also indicted, no mean a person, than the vice-president of the Republic and also the Foreign Affairs Minister, the paper says.
Investigations have revealed that both the vice-president and the Foreign Affairs Minister have all entrusted their businesses into the hands of trustees who manage them independently. They own their businesses before taking up appointments in the Kufuor administration.
Consequently, the trustees are entitled to put in bids for contracts, like any other contractor does.
The Cabinet of president Kufuor will meet Thursday in what is dubbed an ?extra ordinary cabinet meeting? to discuss the report of the Auditor General which has accused two ministers of state of embezzling funds and causing financial loss to the state.
The two ministers involved, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister for Information and Presidential Affairs and Kwamena Bartels MP and Minister for Private Sector Development will be expected to tell the president who has so far maintained cool headedness in the aftermath of the report which is damning to his government, their side of the A-G?s report which they both described as unfair.
The president is reported in ?The Independent? to have told his men to remain calm whilst they wait to have the issue discussed at Thursday?s crucial meeting.
The Auditor-General?s report, we are informed is supposed to be a query for the ministers involved to answer some of the allegations leveled against them.
Strangely, the report somehow found its way into the hands of the minority leader, Alban Bagbin, also chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament.
According to a report picked up from The Independent, ?other credible sources have hinted that Vice-President Aliu Mahama and Foreign Affairs Minister, Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, whose companies were cited for conflict of interest in the Special Project report, are also expected to answer questions from the president and some of their colleagues at Thursday?s meeting.
Although unconfirmed, The Independent says it was informed that the Acting Auditor General would also attend the cabinet meeting as a non-cabinet member due to the role of his outfit in the whole saga.?
Many people have expressed shock at the report which has also indicted, no mean a person, than the vice-president of the Republic and also the Foreign Affairs Minister, the paper says.
Investigations have revealed that both the vice-president and the Foreign Affairs Minister have all entrusted their businesses into the hands of trustees who manage them independently. They own their businesses before taking up appointments in the Kufuor administration.
Consequently, the trustees are entitled to put in bids for contracts, like any other contractor does.
