Quaye's Stupidity Caused Judgment Debt - Kotei

Explosive!!!

… Akufo-Addo Was Attorney General





As the picture continues to become clearer that John Agyekum Kufuor and his ill-intentioned appointees are the root cause of the heavy judgment debt that the Atta Mills Administration is saddled with, a former Presiding Member (PM) of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has blown the lid of the genesis of City & Country Waste Limited (CCWL), judgment debt saga.


Honourable Issaka Nii Amon Kotei, the PM of the AMA during the tenure of Solomon Ofei Darko, the first Mayor during the tenure of Kufuor, has made an explosive revelation that leaves I.C. Quaye’s head on the chopping board.


The extremely explosive revelation was made on Vibe FM’s ever-popular “Capital Extra” Programme, last Saturday morning.

Speaking with a very heavy heart, Hon Amon Kotei spilled the beans; saying that Eddie Annan’s CCWL is today getting huge judgment debt as a result of I.C. Quaye allowing politics to becloud rational thinking.


“It is I.C Quaye’s stupidity that has caused all this mess” Amon Kotei said without any qualms.


Indeed, Amon Kotei repeated the “stupidity” line, at least three more times before the programme ended.


Narrating the story, Amon Kotei said immediately the NPP took over the reins of government, I.C. Quaye, who was appointed Greater Accra Regional Minister, with oversight responsibility over the AMA, took the unilateral decision to abrogate CCWL’s contract because of Eddie Annan’s relationship with then Vice President Atta Mills and the NDC.


Speaking to the issue, Amon Kotei said that as the PM, he and a majority of the Assembly Members vehemently opposed the senseless move by I.C Quaye to unilaterally abrogate the contract, which was signed in 1996 to comprehensively help the AMA manage waste.


Apparently, the contract was to run for an initial phase of 5 years and would have expired by the end of 2001.

However, since I.C Quaye was in a hurry to deny Eddie Annan a source of livelihood, he was not prepared to wait and so went ahead and abrogated the contract.


Indeed, per the submission of Amon Kotei, Solomon Ofei Darko, the AMA Boss, was also not in support of the illegal journey I.C. Quaye sought to embark upon.


I.C. Quaye, however used his Ministerial powers with impunity; run roughshod over the Mayor and the Assembly; went ahead and did his wicked heart desired.


As Amon Kotei continued to make his submission and expose I.C Quaye for being the root cause of the CCWL judgment debt, it came to the fore that NPP flagbearer, Akufo-Addo, was the Attorney General (AG) at the time.


In other words, Akufo-Addo sat idly by and allowed his colleague to “stupidly” abrogate a legally binding contract.


As the sitting AG at the time, it is ipso facto that Akufo-Addo tacitly supported I.C Quaye to engage in his illegal act.

Indeed, there is no record to the effect that as Attorney General, Akufo-Addo proffered a legal opinion on the matter, advising I.C. Quaye not to engage in an illegal act that had the potential of saddling the nation with gargantuan judgment debt.


As the records now have it, in spite of all the wise attempt by the Mayor, the PM, and majority of the Assembly Members to stop I.C. Quaye from engaging in an illegal act that would saddle the nation with huge judgment debt, the then Greater Accra Minister went ahead and abrogated the contract.


What seemed to irk Hon Amon Kotei the more, is the manner in which I.C. Quaye distributed the vehicles, trucks and other properties of CCWL, to his relatives and some party apparatchiks after abrogating the contract.


“He distributed the trucks to his brother the borla man and some other friends. In fact, he promised to give some NPP Assembly members some of the vehicles but swerved them” Amon Kotei said.


Unable to hide his anger at the mess which I.C. Quaye’s “stupidity” has created by way of the huge judgment debt that has the potential of crippling the AMA, Amon Kotei said that he was very angry when he recently heard I.C. Quaye referring to NDC Officials as “STEALERS”.


“I can’t believe that I.C Quaye had the audacity to refer to NDC officials as stealers after the mess that he has created” Amon Kotei said.

It would be recalled that recently when the NPP held a rally at Dome, I.C. Quaye, in his characteristic use of bad English and foul language, referred to NDC officials as “Stealers”.


Ironically, I.C. Quaye referred to NDC officials as “stealers” in direct relation to the issue of judgment debt payments that the Atta Mills Administration is painfully managing in order not to drive the nation’s future down the abyss.


Kufuor; Kwadwo Mpiani; Akufo-Addo; I.C. Quaye and co, after creating the judgment debt mess, now turn around and have the effrontery to point fingers at President Atta Mills for cleaning up the mess that he inherited.