NPP Compares Mills Security Post to Hotel Kufuor

It is amazing but true. Desperation is driving the New Patriotic Party (NPP) out of control. After failing to score any meaningful political point from a barrage of open insults, outright lies and concocted stories in recent times, the opposition party and its media hirelings have moved their agenda to a different level this week by trying to draw a similarity between a security post being built by President John Evans Atta Mills in his residence for his security detail to the acquisition of the infamous Hotel Kufuor by former President John Agyekum Kufuor whiles in office.

Personal correspondences between President Mills and Regimanuel Gray Ltd clearly show that the President is paying for the security post being built for the security detail in his residence.

The acquisition of the uncompleted ‘Hotel Kufuor,’ cost Mr. Kufuor $8 million before being completed and change of name effected to the present Africa Regent Hotel.

Madam Gisele Yazji, an intended economic advisor to Mr. Kufuor who publicly said she and Mr. Kufuor were lovers and had a progeny of twin-boys as a result, insists Mr. Kufuor used the force of state power to coerce the bona fide owner of ‘Hotel Kufuor’ to sell the edifice to him.

The NPP and its pro-media have been screaming that President Atta Mills had acquired a huge mansion two and half years into his presidency, which they claimed depicts the epitome of the better Ghana Agenda of the President, who has begun grabbing property indiscriminately.

The NPP quickly jumped into the fray, with its deputy director of communication, Samuel Awuku, calling for a probe into the so-called Mills mansion. A trip by the media to the said Mills mansion as claimed by the NPP revealed a project in the private house of President Mills that is barely at the foundation stage.

This is not the first time the pro-NPP media is making an allegation of property acquisition by a member of the Mills government.

They claimed Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States of America, Daniel Ohene Agyekum and deputy minister of Information, Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa have both separately acquired properties in the US at different locations. What is surprising is that the President himself has been added to the list. Hon Ama Benyiwa-Doe, John Abu Jinapor and others have also been mentioned. Some of the accused have since proceeded to court to clear their names. The Mills mansion claim by the NPP also underscores NPP’s disrespect for the military and police who have been under constant attacks from the opposition party for some time now.

The NPP minority has used derisive arguments to downplay the intelligence of the military in the wake of the decision by the Mills government to purchase aircrafts for the air force, following a specified request made by the Armed Forces Council.

The opposition party did not only use subterfuge in claiming that one of the aircrafts is an for the use of President Mills but chose to call the proposed hanger for the aircrafts a garage among other forms of attack on the soldiers’ integrity. The party however claimed it has no problem with the decision to equip the Ghana Armed Forces.

Led by Nana Akomea, NPP Communications Director, the NPP cast insinuations recently at the infamous Baba Jamal press conference that the Ghana Police are bribe takers when. He asked whether the NDC after bribing journalists, was going to bribe the police to do its bidden in the 2012 elections.