Rot at GYEEDA: Abuga Pele faces trial

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bashings 12 years ago

what is his beef, he should expose all of them when he is put on trial!!!!!!!

what is his beef, he should expose all of them when he is put on trial!!!!!!!
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 12 years ago

AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am c ...
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AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am compelled to do this expose on the former junta head for those who do not know his role in promoting corruption as a national concept. Read on!
In June 1979, eight top military officers, including three former heads of state, were lined up and executed at the Teshie Military Firing range in two batches. Gen. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Gen. Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo, Gen. Robert Kotei, Lt-Gen. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa, Rear Admiral Joy Amedume, Air Vice-Marshall George Yaw Boakye, Emmanuel K. Utuka and Colonel Roger Felli were accused of corrupting the body politic.
In an interview with New Nation, a monthly magazine circulating in Nigeria and now defunct, the Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which supervised over the most famous case of extra-judicial killings in the history of the political evolution of Ghana, justified the action of his military junta as a necessary action to rid the body politic of corruption.
“They were jumbo-sized armed robbers whose killings left the world smelling nicer,” Flt-Lt. Rawlings was quoted by the magazine as saying in explanation.
Jerry Rawlings said the officers had to be killed, “because Ghana was faced with their type of thievery breed of criminals who were worse than Nigeria’s armed robbers” in the 1970s.
“Now, I’ll tell you what we have here. We have a breed that is, perhaps, worse than your armed robbers,” he told reporters of the New Nation in an exclusive interview. “They are the pen robbers. These species of vermin have for long perpetrated corruption with impunity.
“They have not only bled the nation white, but as a result of their thievery, Ghana has suffered hunger, loss of national spirit, loss of pride and respect in the military uniform. So, as you can see, while Nigerians have perceived their main social problems to be the proliferation of six Naira armed robbers, we, in Ghana, think that our problem is that of people who take widow’s mite from a bankrupt nation.”
In the words of the ex-junta head: “While you (Nigeria) content yourself at the Bar Beach by watching the executions of mal-adjusted labourers, mechanics or clerks, we in Ghana, have killed the jumbo armed robbers, call them generals or brigadiers – whose going to leave the world smelling sweeter.”
One interesting thing about this claim is that Jerry Rawlings and his righteous AFRC members could not account for monies lodged in AFRC Account 48, which was specially created to lodge huge monies paid by businessmen and other persons and institutions found guilty by a so-called people court to have corrupted the system. Monies from seized goods auctioned to the public at so-called control prices were also lodged in the account.
When President Hilla Limann took power after the AFRC had left the scene on September 24, 1979, the new Head of State complained that there was nothing in the coffers, insinuating that the famous Account 48 could not be traced.
When Flt-Lt. Rawlings, who had refused to accept the new government’s offer to go on course abroad, was questioned on the disappearance of the huge lodgings in the account, he replied that he was not an accountant. Incidentally, the fate of PNDC Account 48, established by the second junta led by the same person, has not been accounted for as you read this piece.
One of the most interesting developments in Ghana’s political evolution was the decision to abolish the General Certificate of Examinations -Ordinary and Advanced levels- by the Provisional National Defence Council. The main reason given was that the old educational system had favoured only the children of the elite class.
At a time ordinary folks of the land were enrolling their children in what became known as the Junior and Senior Secondary schools, whose certificates -BECE and SCCE- were not recognised beyond the four corners of the country, Jerry Rawlings enrolled his children at the expensive Ghana International School in Accra to read subjects that qualified them to sit for the GCE Ordinary and the Advanced levels his PNDC administration had prohibited the mass of Ghanaian children from.
I do not believe corruption is only putting state money in one’s pocket. Exploiting state resources for one’s advantage could even be a worse form of corruption. That is why I have an axe to grind with Jerry Rawlings for enrolling all his children abroad to study with the GCE Ordinary and Advanced levels, acquired outside the formal sector in the country.
What I call Jerry’s Stupid Schools has debased education up to the tertiary level, where lottery numbers, other than real academic work, determines qualification at the first degree level.
To add insult to injury, when asked to tell Ghanaians how he was funding the education of all the three children -Ezanator, YaaAsantewaa and Kimathi- in expensive universities in Britain and Ireland, Jerry Rawlings looked at Ghanaians in the face and answered that unknown benefactors were picking up the bills for their fees.
The Almighty is a kind Lord. It emerged that companies the state of Ghana was dealing with and which were milking Ghana dry, were picking up the bills of Jerry Rawlings’ children. And such a person has the audacity to complain about leaders being corrupt.
I dare state that corruption was elevated into an art under Jerry Rawlings. The circumstances under which he transformed himself from a military dictator into a civil constitutional President smells of corruption all the way to the Castle.
After eleven and a half years of the ‘Gospel According to Jerry Rawlings,’ a period he himself identified as the ‘culture of silence’, Jerry Rawlings and those who claim to believe in him used the resources of state to convert his military oligarchy and the entire governance system into a political party. With the Electoral Commission and the entire process under his thumb, Jerry Rawlings exchanged his military garb for a description as Constitutional President of the Republic of Ghana. God Almighty should remain where he is.
The eight year administration he led, as Constitutional President of this Republic, eulogised corruption as a state-sponsored event. State asserts were transferred to cronies under the guise of divestiture. As you read this piece, Nsawam Cannery, one of the flagship projects of the now defunct Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation, belongs to Caridem, a company floated by Mrs. Rawlings’ 31st December Women’s Movement, in a purchasing agreement that parceled the company to Caridem for a pittance.
Under the Government of the National Democratic Congress Mark One, corruption festered on a large scale. It would take volumes to chronicle corruption under the NDC. But four prominent issues stand out. Getting to the end of the first term of office, newspapers that had been freed from the bondage of the culture of silence began chronicling evidence of corrupt deals by leading members of the regime.
In 1996, the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice investigated one matter and established massive corrupt deals against Ibrahim Adam, then Minister of Agriculture, Colonel E.M. Osei Owusu, a former Minister of the Interior, P.V. Obeng, a Presidential Staffer, and Dr. Adjei Marfo, a Chief Executive Officer of a state-run company.
Instead of prosecuting them, the Government of Saint Rawlings rather issued a While Paper exonerating the corrupt elements, and rather indicted the media for highlighting the issue.
In Britain, Mabey and Johnson was prosecuted not too long ago for corruptly influencing Ghanaian politicians between 1994 and 1999 to gain bridge contracts, The news in these contracts is that barely one year after completing two bridges in Ghana, including one over River Oti, the Ghana Government had to contract experts from Britain to repair them as they threatened to cave in.
In 2002, the former Managing Director of Ghana Rubber Estates Limited, Mr. Etienne Arthur Marie Popeler, told an Accra Fast Track High Court that he gave millions of dollars to Mr. Dan Abodakpi, then Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Shirley Ayittey, then Treasurer of the 31st December Women’s Movement, in bribes before his French company, SIPH, could secure GREL.
The case of Ms. Cotton, an unemployed American, secured $20 million of scarce state cash from compromised state officials, ostensibly to grow rice for Ghanaians at Aveyime in the Battor area of the Volta Region. Even when Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States had sent a warning letter about the background of Ms. Cotton, and intimating that she was incapable of undertaking the task, state officials paid the money. As it turned out, the main motivating factor was the cut they all stood to make.
If corruption is endemic in the body politic after the so-called June 4, uprising, the genesis could be traced to Jerry Rawlings who executed eight Ghanaians officials on unproven trivial charges, and out-doored full- blown corruption as a state policy.
In other exposé next week, I intend to draw the link between the free for all looting that assails the body politic in the Mills-Mahama regime, and the adventure of Jerry John Rawlings as Head of State of this Republic. I shall return!
OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

Author:-Hon. Martin A.B.K. Amidu.

...The Government exercised the latter option when we disagreed over the judgment debt and other Gargantuan crimes. The Government, and my colleague Ministers at the time know that there w ...
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Author:-Hon. Martin A.B.K. Amidu.

...The Government exercised the latter option when we disagreed over the judgment debt and other Gargantuan crimes. The Government, and my colleague Ministers at the time know that there was no provision for dismissal under my contract of employment as a Minister or that of any Minster.

I reserve the right as a citizen of Ghana to protect and defend my honour and integrity should this civilized challenge for the truth be ignored.

This is not the price I should be made to pay by the Government of Ghana for defending the Constitution of Ghana in the Waterville and Isofoton unconstitutional payments declared by the Supreme Court.
ATSU, HO 12 years ago

IF YOU ATTEMPT TO PROSECUTE ANYBODY, THE PERSON WILL TALK AND THAT IS WHY THE GOVT. HAS DEVELOPED COLD FEET. THEY ARE ALL INVOVED IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. NO ONE I REPEAT NO ONE CAN BE PROSECUTED UNDER GYEEDA AS LONG AS THE N ...
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IF YOU ATTEMPT TO PROSECUTE ANYBODY, THE PERSON WILL TALK AND THAT IS WHY THE GOVT. HAS DEVELOPED COLD FEET. THEY ARE ALL INVOVED IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. NO ONE I REPEAT NO ONE CAN BE PROSECUTED UNDER GYEEDA AS LONG AS THE NDC REMAIN IN POWER
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Kofi Yankey 12 years ago

People have forgotten all these about Jerry John Rawlings. Please, publish this as a full article, instead of this long comment. Actually, you can write a book on this.

People have forgotten all these about Jerry John Rawlings. Please, publish this as a full article, instead of this long comment. Actually, you can write a book on this.
Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

All these will soon be over,if 18th
November comes.The Government is already a Dummy not talking sense.

All these will soon be over,if 18th
November comes.The Government is already a Dummy not talking sense.
kpeglar 12 years ago

they will kill u if u dont take of yourself like they did to atta mills.

they will kill u if u dont take of yourself like they did to atta mills.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 12 years ago

The first person to go to jail must be Mahama over the aircraft Mills initiated investigations before Mahama killed him. If Mahama is not jailed, no one else must be jailed.

The first person to go to jail must be Mahama over the aircraft Mills initiated investigations before Mahama killed him. If Mahama is not jailed, no one else must be jailed.
Joe ballack 12 years ago

Mahama himself is a big corrupt leader that's why he can't prosecute his his own people because he is corrupt himself

Mahama himself is a big corrupt leader that's why he can't prosecute his his own people because he is corrupt himself

Bongo Boy 12 years ago

Why changed the name and make it easy to fraud.

Why changed the name and make it easy to fraud.
nKwa 12 years ago

For better.

For better.
Bongo Boy 12 years ago

Taliban party

Taliban party
USMAN 12 years ago

This is how far our useless university education has brought us.

This is how far our useless university education has brought us.
Sethoo 12 years ago

This has got nothing to do with education,if you are a thief you will continue to be a thief wherever you are.Stealing is a moral issue not qualification matter.

This has got nothing to do with education,if you are a thief you will continue to be a thief wherever you are.Stealing is a moral issue not qualification matter.
NII LARTEY NARTEY 12 years ago

Why should this once naughty arrogantly criminal, Abuga Pele, jumping to the radio stations shouting over his voice he's being haunted? Who is haunting who among the NDC criminal gangsters?

In the days when you thought you ...
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Why should this once naughty arrogantly criminal, Abuga Pele, jumping to the radio stations shouting over his voice he's being haunted? Who is haunting who among the NDC criminal gangsters?

In the days when you thought you were untouchable and smart enough to concealed your criminal deeds, why were you not shouting. Now that the stinky corrupt GYEEDA practice is out the bag you now think you are being witch haunted to be sacrifice for others crimes.

Who are the other criminals who want you be sacrifice for their crimes? That is why you must face the court of justice to swear bonding oath to honestly tell us what you know about your other criminal associates as there is huge speculations Mahama himself was involved in the GYEEDA and the despicable SADA corruptions.

Mahama has enough corrupt and crimes and other issues committed against the people and country over his head to carry other peoples problem now that he's having sleepless night including the callous cold murder of Agya Atta Mills.

You "woyomenized" and chop our money and you must all be made to face trial to shiit it all.
Pelicles 12 years ago

If you think you are being used as a scapegoat, then name names and let all of them face the music. This man should come clean. I listened to this man one day and the only conclusion I drew was, Ghana is in a sinkhole. He k ...
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If you think you are being used as a scapegoat, then name names and let all of them face the music. This man should come clean. I listened to this man one day and the only conclusion I drew was, Ghana is in a sinkhole. He knew what went on at that agency and he was at the center of the rot that took place. As head, he should be prosecuted because he failed to act as a head.
HELLO 12 years ago

HELLO

HELLO
Ghanaboy 12 years ago

This is an opportunity for you to show your innocence. Just have the proof to support your claim and the Judges will not allow you to be used as as a scape goat. Why afraid of the court when you know you don't have anything t ...
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This is an opportunity for you to show your innocence. Just have the proof to support your claim and the Judges will not allow you to be used as as a scape goat. Why afraid of the court when you know you don't have anything to hide. Remember were you come from a poor background but all of a sudden a millionaire with hotels etc .Where did you get the money from?
Simon 12 years ago

All what they have to do is for them to seek real justice for all the culprits or leave Abuga pele alone. What happened to Clement Kofi Humado?, do Elvis Afriyie Ankra know the cost of the numerous plat forms he mounted durin ...
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All what they have to do is for them to seek real justice for all the culprits or leave Abuga pele alone. What happened to Clement Kofi Humado?, do Elvis Afriyie Ankra know the cost of the numerous plat forms he mounted during the campaign and how it was finance?. I tell you those officials behind this Gyeeda case all knew where the monies are. What about the service providers? bGMS, RLG, ETC. This people are insulting us.

CL 12 years ago

Though we are all sinners but let us feature God in every positions that we find ourselves in life, which is stewardship. If we understand stewardship Ghana and our institutions would be better off than today.

Though we are all sinners but let us feature God in every positions that we find ourselves in life, which is stewardship. If we understand stewardship Ghana and our institutions would be better off than today.
Queen 12 years ago

May God punish all of you.

May God punish all of you.
mohammed 12 years ago

when this man is tried and given the chance to rerun the money with the interest, then all involved shall pay back and ban from public office for at least two election period after the last peswa is paid. Continue prosecution ...
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when this man is tried and given the chance to rerun the money with the interest, then all involved shall pay back and ban from public office for at least two election period after the last peswa is paid. Continue prosecution and get the judiciary busy. They are ready to convict for mother ghana. Amidu's case is example of what our judges are angry and mad about corruption.
Yaw Boateng 12 years ago

Why only 'BABY FACE' Abuga Pele?. Is IT becos he is NOT Mahama boy?. Hahahahahaaaa all animals de run, if cow alone run them say it is a TABOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Why only 'BABY FACE' Abuga Pele?. Is IT becos he is NOT Mahama boy?. Hahahahahaaaa all animals de run, if cow alone run them say it is a TABOOOOOOOOOOOO.
WE ARE IN TROUBLE 12 years ago

WHAAAAT

WHAAAAT
Yaw 12 years ago

what about the embraer plane, sara,woyome etc?

what about the embraer plane, sara,woyome etc?
Truth 12 years ago

If you are clean the court will free you. What is your beef?

If you are clean the court will free you. What is your beef?
Yussif Hamidu 12 years ago

The Hon. Minister by then should also be put before book and lef Abuger Perple

The Hon. Minister by then should also be put before book and lef Abuger Perple
kpeglar 12 years ago

they kill you like uncle atta mills. please be careful

they kill you like uncle atta mills. please be careful
Whatever 12 years ago

NYEP and GYEEDA were all NOT established under any law so what rot is Daily Guide referring to? If a body was not operated by a law, how can its transaction be caught by it? Ignorant Press house

NYEP and GYEEDA were all NOT established under any law so what rot is Daily Guide referring to? If a body was not operated by a law, how can its transaction be caught by it? Ignorant Press house

rkt 12 years ago

the last time i checked, it was illegal for unlicensed (unauthorized) persons, natural or artificial, to charge interest on any monies advanced! consequently, i advise that the interest be recovered with interest and, conside ...
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the last time i checked, it was illegal for unlicensed (unauthorized) persons, natural or artificial, to charge interest on any monies advanced! consequently, i advise that the interest be recovered with interest and, considering that the beneficiaries pre-financed the expenditure, no further action be taken, or they be granted interest at bog re-discount rate +. this means the excess of interest charged by them over bog re-discount rate + be recovered + interest!
KKBK 12 years ago

YOU ARE NOW RUNNING WAY FROM YOUR SINS.WHEN YOU WITHDREW OUR THREE MONTHS MONEY FROM ADB AND PAYED US ONLY ONE MONTH AT NKAWIE DISTRICT ASSEMBLY, DECEMBER 2011 AT 9PM, YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS THE END.YOU ARE A THIEF AND MUST ROT ...
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YOU ARE NOW RUNNING WAY FROM YOUR SINS.WHEN YOU WITHDREW OUR THREE MONTHS MONEY FROM ADB AND PAYED US ONLY ONE MONTH AT NKAWIE DISTRICT ASSEMBLY, DECEMBER 2011 AT 9PM, YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS THE END.YOU ARE A THIEF AND MUST ROT IN JAIL.FOOO00L

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