How Bawa Drained SIC Of Millions

…Turned Company Guest House Into Family Habitat …Cooks Fried & Roasted For Guests At SIC’s Expense

By Dominic Jale & Kofi Safo-Antwi

For years on end the beleaguered Kumasi Area Manager of the SIC Company Ltd Ms. Lydia Lareba Bawa who has been in the news for the wrong reasons, has been perpetrating lots of grievous wrongs against the insurance company, virtually walking away with murder in the process.

In one of her numerous but nefarious misdeeds THE GHANAIAN SUN has latched on to, Manager Lareba Bawa’s recalcitrant and arrogance came to bear when she chose to occupy an SIC guest house facility with family and friends, while on transfer to Kumasi in 2009.

True to prediction by rash punters, the first thing Manager Lareba Bawa did when she was transferred was to turn down her official residence at Nyhiaeso in Kumasi, claiming that the residence was far below her taste, hence her refusal to occupy it. Instead, she moved to the multi-purpose state-of-the-art suite of the SIC Guest House at Ahodwo also in Kumasi, where she housed family and friends at the company’s cost. THE GHANAIAN SUN’s investigations has it that on occasions when the tongue desired to taste sumptuous meals, SIC cooks were sent to the pantry to provide a copy-book of a collection of delicious assortment of foods, that have to, until mouths dripped with water.

According to a veritable source within the Kumasi Area Office of the company, for three consistent years these high-societal dishes were billed against bleeding SIC, when in fact most of the foods were munched by Lareba Bawa’s relatives and friends. The cumulative effect of the precarious situation, the paper learnt, has shot the company’s expenditure to an all-time high in Kumasi particularly because, any time SIC officials were on duty tour to Lareba Bawa’s branch, the company had no option than to arrange to put them in hotels, instead of the official guest house where the Manager’s people permanently occupy. And to compound the issue, Lareba Bawa stands accused yet again for tasking official cooks at the Guest House to provide food for her guests, and then pass the bill on to the drooping shoulders of the SIC.

THE GHANAIAN SUN is doing a shadowy job on the mother of all scandals under the ambit of Lareba Bawa, whose full disclosure should drop jaws and send the mind on a boggling expedition. In what is to come in the nearest future, the paper will begin its exposés on how SIC was made to pay bogus and cooked-up claims to the detriment of the Company.

The paper stumbled upon the fact that it was due to the litany of fraudulent activities by Lareba Bawa that prompted the departed MD, Ben Acolatse to pencil her in for transfer. On that occasion she screamed with all the arrogance in her being, and fumed all the away to Labour Commission where she claimed her wards were young, even though the youngest of her children was almost 19 years. But also in focus and coming up pretty soon is a charge of claims made by she-who-is-to-be-obeyed, thought to have turned herself into a consultant to extort monies from a leading cocoa purchasing company.

Also hooked to this very case is yet another pharmaceutical company, which, together with the Cocoa company, were leading clients of SIC in the Kumasi Area whose combined effect was a departure from doing business with SIC, which then suffered several millions of Ghana Cedis in the process.

But the coming weeks will tell why SIC has tolerated such recalcitrant acts by an individual, whose first obligation to her terms of employment at SIC ought to have been commitment and discipline, in the positive sense of the words. “That question can perhaps be best answered by one of her fondest friends, General Manager Ofori Kuragu, and the Max Cobbina-led board of directors”, an insider who pleaded anonymity told THE GHANAIAN SUN.

Christ’s Cross On Oiled Seductive Breasts …The New Craze Called ‘Ma Tricki Jesus’

By Kofi Safo-Antwi A growing spate of indecent dressing has permeated society including Jesus Christ’s church in recent times, where sensuous ladies disguised as the Lord’s handmaid, choose to oil exposed breasts they jostle for public viewing, housing the facility in low frontal capes of their dresses while resting Christ’s cross on them in an abominable craze.

The in-thing in vogue at the present time is that, young women and in some instances girls have found it fashionable to advertize scantily-clad upper-top wears, which house a heaped-up pair of breasts whose nipples shoot upwards through the material erotically, taking imagination and suggestive dispositions a mile too far.

Indeed in religious places and offices of serious endeavour, it has become so fashionable for even female opinion leaders and Ministers of state supposed to mentor the young, to jump aboard the bandwagon, advertizing the nonsense and dragging along a multitude of admirers and protégés into the abyss of self-destruction.

The pain sitting in the hearts of worried society is that, if so-called men of the cassock continue to turn a blind eye on such a disturbing phenomenon, chances are that the trait may pass for normal in the next couple of years, just as the OTTO PFISTER wear is now common among young lads. The incontestable truth is that in most churches dotted around the country which profess to preach Christ, this canker is so rife. Yet, there does not seem to be an ebb to the tide because many believe preachers’ messages against the status quo either lack the remedial punch to arrest the situation, or that they have been drowned into nothingness.

But THE GHANAIAN SUN has not stopped wondering how a happening as sacred as Jesus’ death on the cross some 2000 years ago, which the sacrosanct vouches to be the ethos of Christianity could be toyed with atop ladies’ oiled breasts, in the most sensuously seductive of ways.

Granny Esther Arthur-Rhule (Mrs) an educationist and moralist whose very popular education establishment at the heart of Cape Coast has churned out several leaders on the political, social and religious front, told THE GHANAIAN SUN in an interview that the death that will kill a woman first begins as a fashion and an appetite too.

And by that figurative talk pregnant with a salient interpretation for an answer, the educationist must have struck the heart of the matter in that, for now, the mass of young women may see the fashion worthwhile, yet, the curse thereon because of the expensive nature of Christ’s death on the cross, makes dressing of that kind extremely abominable to God almighty.

The oldie who completed elementary school back in the day in 1956 revealed a rather frightening spectacle, where she said temptresses in the pay of Satan choose to dress in a semi-nude manner, while choosing the front row of churches to sit to listen to the word of God, when the real intention of sweeping the preacher off his moral feet is obvious.

Madam Arthur-Rhule blamed the increase in immorality on society’s decision in the choice to go wayward, and cautioned all servants and handmaids of God to work hard at disentangling themselves from the shackles of the canker so that, the nation could churn out responsible citizens the Lord would be proud of. “That way, a curse as heavy as the weight of the whole world would not come resting on the Ghana of our times, where many elect to work like snake-on-crime to commit the very sins that are abominable and blasphemous in the sight of God,” the educationist said in her parting shot to THE GHANAIAN SUN.