Kufuor Has Lost Control Over Corruption - Busia

Nana Frema Busia, an independent candidate for Manhyia Constituency in the Ashanti Region, has accused President Kufuor of selective prosecution of past NDC Ministers, with regard to allegations of corruption.

According to her, the President, who declared zero tolerance for corruption has lost control of the plot and has selectively prosecuted some NDC officials to please the Iinternational community.

"Having won elections on a false zero tolerance for corruption mantra, President Kufuor has failed to prosecute significant past corrupt NDC officials. I know it, because I was the legal counsel for the team who did the forensic and diagnostic audits on the NDC mega corruption nightmares including various SSNIT ventures, Ghana Airways and La Palm divestiture."

Addressing a press conference in Accra yesterday, Nana Frema Busia said the granting of pardon to jailed NDC officials by President Kufuor was mind boggling, while on the same scale, he has refused to grant pardon to Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, the former Chief Executive of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).

She said the Presidential pardons were done by President Kufuor to seek future reciprocity, alleging that under the reign of JAK, corruption has been entrenched, institutionalized and has flourished.

Frema Busia, who minced no words on Ministers and ex-Ministers under the NPP regime, said she could not understand why President Kufuor would set up a committee to investigate the missing cocaine.

"How could the President set up a commission to look for lost cocaine of the MV Benjamin case, when 'Produce the evidence President' did not have the evidence and the cocaine was already long gone? This charade was like putting someone on trial for murder, when you don't have a corpse."

According to her, people serving sentences under the MV Benjamin trial are suffering injustice, saying that the real culprits have been rewarded with national awards of Order of the Volta, with vain gold chains around their necks.

The aspiring Independent Candidate for Manhyia, condemned how politicians go round with machomen in the country on their campaign trails.

Nana Frema Busia intoned that there was a total break down of law and order, upsurge in violence, violent socio political upheavals in the country.

With a number of accusations running through her prepared text against the former Minister of National Security, Mr. Francis Poku, Nana Frema Busia, a former Legal Counsel to National Security as well as a Technical Advisor and National Coordinator of the non-existent functional wing of small arms commission, criticised the setting up of the national reconciliation.

"President Kufuor, who set up a reconciliation commission without truth is giving back confiscated assets with political hypocrisy, even while my salary for six years has not been paid by President Kufuor as part of my torture package."

The Parliamentary hopeful, who stated that her life was in danger, said Ghana's freedom was in chains and held bondage to presidential corruption and effusive greed.

According to her, the justice system was a mirage as social injustices created entrenched conflicts in Yendi, Bawku, Gushiegu, Anloga and many parts of the country.