Plot To Smear MASLOC Boss

Information reaching The Republic reveals a sinister plot by Ken Agyei

Kuranchie, editor of the Daily Searchlight to use his medium to scandalize the

Chief Executive Officer of the Micro-finance & Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Mrs.

Bertha Ansah-Djan.

Last week, the editor, in line with this invidious aim sent a reporter to the

office of MASLOC to cross-check a tip-off that Pergah Transport Ltd had just

paid back a loan of GH ¢100,000.00(One Hundred thousand Ghana cedis) that it

owed MASLOC.

However, Kuranchie’s sinister motive to crucify the CEO of MASLOC, who also

happened to be the Managing Director of Pergah Transport Ltd, a leading private

transport company in Ghana, backfired when the young reporter learnt that the GH

¢100,000 receipt that his editor saw in the name of Pergah Transport Limited

was not money owed and being paid back but rather money being lent by the

transport company to MASLOC to enable it perform its core function of lending

money to small scale businesses.

Mustapha Abubakar, Public Relations Officer told The Republic in an interview

over the weekend that Mrs. Bertha Ansah-Djan decided to get her company to lend

the money to MASLOC because money to be disbursed to potential beneficiaries was

not yet ready.

“She did it out of her desire to save the scheme which is virtually on its knees

as a result of the way it was mishandled by the previous management. We are now

struggling to recoup some of the monies the management under the NPP recklessly

disbursed to party apparatchiks and cronies” the PRO explained.

Mustapha explained that the CEO received the approval of the Board of MASLOC

to have Pergah Transport Ltd lend money to MASLOC and added further that there

is no interest on the loan.

Rather than applaud the spirit behind the CEO’s move, Ken Kuranchie, our sources

maintain, determined to scandalize Mrs. Ansah-Djan has decided to publish the

story about the loan from Pergah to MASLOC, giving it a slant that would make

the CEO look bad in the eyes of the public. This would, however, not come as a

surprise to many decent minded Ghanaians who have come to appreciate that the

Daily Searchlight editor’s only understanding of journalism is ruining the hard

won image of decent Ghanaians.

Our intel sources say his story on MASLOC may appear in today or tomorrow’s

edition of his paper.

Pergah Transport Ghana Limited, in 2007, offered a sponsorship package of over

¢235,000,000 to support a programme aimed at improving teaching and learning at

the Asutifi District in the Brong Ahafo Region, for the next two years. It is

also on record to have done similar projects in line with its corporate social

responsibilities

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