The Gizelle Yazji Circus Recycled (4)

We continue with our series on the Gizelle Yazji saga and seek to reveal that the threats and claims being made by Gizelle Yajzi are nothing new. They are the same old tricks she used to attempt to extort money from the previous NPP administration which she is peddling again, hoping many would fall for her con. Read the following story and ask yourself why she has failed to live up to her threats to-date and whether she can be trusted as a reliable and material witness to anything.

YAZJI FOR G8

…To Report Prez Kufuor To World Leaders

…And Scupper Ghana’s $4bn Debt Relief

Story: Abdul Hakim Ahmed, ‘The Heritage’, July 13, 2005, Pages 1&3

Ghana’s hope of getting her ballooned debt forgiven as promised by the G8 countries may be scuppered by the threat of Ms. Gizelle Yazji of Hotel Kufuor fame, to drag the nation’s Chief Executive to the G8 leaders.

In her newest interview with the Accra-based Radio Gold on Monday, July 11, 2005, the now combative former Presidential advisor, disclosed that SHE WOULD MAKE HER EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO THOSE LEADERS SO AS TO BE WELL INFORMED ON THE FOGGY ISSUES OF THE HOTEL IN QUESTION.

According to the woman whose nationality is still hanging in a dark cloud, after her firm denial that she is neither an American nor an Iraqi, her lawyers are preparing every document on the hotel transaction for each of the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations.

“MY LAWYERS ARE PREPARING EVERY DOCUMENT TO BE SENT TO EVERY PRESIDENT REPRESENTING THE COUNTRIES OF THE G8 BECAUSE THEY JUST MADE A BIG EFFORT TO HELP AFRICA AND THE FIRST THING THEY ASKED FOR IS COMMITMENT FROM AFRICAN PRESIDENTS AND THEY HAVE ASKED THEM TO STOP CORRUPTION…THIS IS WHY WE ARE GOING TO SEND EVERY DOCUMENT AND I’M SURE THEY WILL LOOK AT IT”, she pointed out.

“I’m helping Ghana to know what kind of father they have for the country. I’m helping the whole world to know that corruption cannot go to anything.

“I think you have heard many speeches in the G8 Summit and all the dignitaries from the G8.

“They talked about corruption, about good governance, about rule of law and if President John Kufuor knows what is rule of law, he should know that law begins at home and he is the one who should bring out his son and let him show us all the documentation that they are talking about”, she maintained.

She told Ronald Acquah Stevens, her interviewer on Radio Gold, not to give her contacts to Ms Anna Bossman, the Acting Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) saying, ‘Bossman should rather go to the President, his son, the former Finance Minister among others for her contact numbers’.

“Why should Radio Gold give my contact, …one Mss Anna Bossman, if she wants my contacts, she can call the President, his Excellency President Kufuor, I’m going to give her some names where she can call.

“His Excellency the President, she can call his son, John Addo Kufuor, she can call the former Minister of Finance, Mr. Osafo Maafo, and she can call also the Minister of Health.

“She can also call Kwame, the farmer who fixed the President’s house. She can find him the whole day at the President’s house because he was there. He has my phone also. Why she should have my number from Radio Gold, and I suppose even you don’t have it”, she posited.

She said she does not have confidence in the CHRAJ because Ms. Bossman, who is the head of the Commission, does not in the first place, fully understand the issues at stake.

Yazji pointed out that she doesn’t trust the CHRAJ boss because she was appointed by the President and therefore cannot treat the matter fairly.

“I DON’T BELIEVE IN THIS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE AND THIS IS WHY WE ARE CONDUCTING OUR INVESTIGATION THROUGH INTERNATIONAL TRANSPARENCY IN THE WORLD. I EVEN MET WITH THEM IN BERLIN….

“First of all, the one who gave this position to Ms. Anna Bossman is the President. And I don’t understand… for example in her letter…”, Yazji affirmed.

To her since Bossman does not know her nationality, she is not fit to even investigate the hotel saga.

“I want to tell this one Ms. Bossman or whatever her name is. First of all I’m not ‘a one’ Ms. Gizelle Yazji, I’m Ms. Gizelle Yazji and if until now she doesn’t know that I’m not an Iraqi, what kind of …let us see what kind of investigation she is doing… she has to tell me also why she has some investigation she is going…”, Yazji declared.

“Bossman had said that I’m the one who is accusing the President. She didn’t even read the news. I’m not the one who accused the President.

“It was a Ghanaian newspaper and the first person to tell that the President was involved in this matter was the Advisor to President Kufuor’s son. I was asked what I know about it and I said what I know about it.

“You know I don’t know how it happened. How it began and this is why I don’t trust her. She cannot have asked from Radio Gold my contact number.

“She can have it from the President. And even, I think that Radio Gold told her that they never talked with an expatriate Iraqi, she said.

The former Presidential Advisor said she is however prepared to come down and testify if a proper Parliamentary commission is set up to investigate the scandal.

“I’M WILLING TO GO TO GHANA EVEN KNOWING THAT MY LIFE IS IN DANGER. I’M WILLING TO GO TO GHANA AND I’M GOING TO THE PARLIAMENT AND I WILL DECLARE UNDER OATH WHATEVER I KNOW WITH PLEASURE AND IT WILL BE AN HONOUR”, she said.

According to her, the President should reign in Mr. Saoud to pay his taxes if he is sure that the transaction is above-board.

“If everybody has said that this is a private issue, why His Excellency the President doesn’t come out and ask Mr. Saoud to pay his taxes”.

“Mr. Saoud told us that he had imported from Lebanon, every furniture, every glass, every mirror, everything for the hotel and it cost him $2½m and all the furniture and everything he bought were in the Customs in Ghana.

“We would like to know how much he paid in taxes. I have copies of all his purchases from Lebanon and it is like a little bit weird because I have two invoices for every purchase and both of them, they are from exactly the same company…but with different invoice”, she pointed out.

According to her, while in Ghana, she reported everything she did or any move she took to the President on whose behalf she was working.

“We were very close to each other, His Excellency the President and everything I did and wherever I went, he knew about it and I had his permission.

“I never talked to a Minister or with anybody without his permission and after the meeting with Saoud and Saoud’s son-in-law, I went to President’s house and briefed him of what happened. YES, HE HAS THE TAPE. This is the same thing like any other issue I had done on his behalf”.