Probe Kufuor And His Cabinet

Probe Kufuor And His Cabinet For Wilfully Causing Financial Loss To The State – Akyena Brantuo

Mr. Akyena Brantuo, a Ghanaian and a member of the Coalition for Responsible Opposition (CROP) has as of this morning, 15th December 2011, formally written to the EOCO, CID, National Security, Office of the President and the Parliament of Ghana to immediately investigate and charge Former President Kufuor and his cabinet for acting in a manner that has wilfully caused financial loss of 41m Ghana cedis to the state.

The unilateral decision by former President Kufuor and his cabinet at the time, to abrogate the contract for the “REHABILITATION of ACCRA, AND KUMASI STADIA AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW STADIA IN TAMALE, SEKONDI TAKORADI, AND CAPE COAST” on 22nd August 2005 was unlawful, since it had duly been awarded on Tuesday 9th August 2005 by the Central Tender Review Board in accordance with the Public Procurement Act 2005 to Vamed Engineering/Waterville, represented by Mr. Alfred Woyome, who had the added responsibility of raising money to finance the project.

By this action, the state has lost a whooping 41m GHC as judgement debt alone to Vamed Engineering/Waterville and other partners when they sought refuge in the courts of Ghana. An amount that could have been effectively utilised to address the problems of accommodation, health, education, bio-metric registration and all the other important concerns for which citizens are encouraged to pay taxes from their meagre resources.

This constitutes the most express disregard for the dictates of the rule of law and a major setback in our fight against corruption, it ridicules the efforts of 230 MPs, and the several lawyers who spent considerable time and resources to draft and pass the financial administration act, internal audit act, and the public procurement act.

It is the firm conviction of Mr. Brantuo that a speedy resolution of this matter would give the right and concrete signals to public office holders to keep their pledge to live above corruption and also demonstrate our national commitment to fight the perception and reality of it.

To this end Mr. Brantuo wholeheartedly embraces the recommendation of the Auditor-General in his 2010 report on the Consolidated Fund. He advices that “to save the state from incurring such avoidable expenditure (judgement debts), any public officer whose negligence leads to the imposition of debt on the state should be surcharged accordingly.”

It is his expectation that by close of work Friday 16th December, 2011 he will hear positively from the EOCO, CID, NATIONAL SECURITY, THE PROCUREMENT OFFICE, THE PARLIAMENT OF GHANA AND OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.

Mr. Brantuo and members of the coalition are serving a public notice that if their call is not heeded to immediately, they will mobilise the masses into the streets to demonstrate until the appropriate offices respond to them.

Issued this day Thursday 15th December 2011

By Akyena Brantuo Benjamin. COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE OPPOSITION benakyena@yahoo.com, 0244825187 Public Statement