Top NDC man to be arrested

The Free Press reports that all is now set for the arrest of yet another National Democratic Congress (NDC) kingpin as soon as he sets foot on Ghanaian soil by the security agencies to answer for financial malfeasance during the last regime.

Documents available to the paper indicate that the Honourable Osafo-Maafo's Ministry of Finance is bedeviled with financial improprieties issuing out of the SSNIT fall-out so much that the Minister is now prepared to show that he could kick and kick well at where it hurts most.

A document in the possession of the Free Press indicates that auditors of SSNIT contributions towards the Ghana Healthcare Company Limited are at a loss as to how foreign travels by officials could outweigh even monies used for purchase of fixed assets.

Reports given by officials to the auditors indicate that Mr Kwame Addo, a top NDC man and one-time chairman of the SSNIT Board, took as much as ?45,900,000 (Forty-five million, nine hundred thousand cedis) as free money to travel all the way to Philadelphia to virtually holiday there.

In an interview, sources close to both the Ministry of Finance and SSNIT disclosed that Mr Kwame Addo is neither a staff member of the Ghana Healthcare Company Limited nor was he on the board but managed to scuttle away to Philadelphia with monies from the Healthcare coffers.

A government source indicates that Kwame Addo has a lot of skeletons in his cupboard and a well-placed source pointed out that he would be made to account for the huge sum of money he took for the journey as well as for his mission to Philadelphia.