Mahama lynching: Let us assist Police with investigation - MP

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• PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

  PROF. ADEI FIRES SALVOS!!!!! COURTESY: CLASSFMONLINE.COM ----- The various corruption allegations surfacing are proof that the Mahama administration was far more corrupt than previously thought, former Rector of the Ghana Ins ...
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  PROF. ADEI FIRES SALVOS!!!!! COURTESY: CLASSFMONLINE.COM ----- The various corruption allegations surfacing are proof that the Mahama administration was far more corrupt than previously thought, former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Prof Stephen Adei has said at a Business Roundtable organised by Yamson and Associates in Accra on Wednesday, 31 May. “Do you know why many people want to be politicians? It’s because that is the quickest way to get rich in this country,” Prof Adei said, adding: “We are yet to know the facts because we are not the investigators but the types of things that are being revealed about the amount of corruption [are mind-boggling].” National Communication Authority graft So far three appointees of former President John Mahama are being investigated by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for allegedly diverting some $4million belonging to the National Communications Authority (NCA). The three appointees, according to Information Minister Mustapha Hamid, conspired with a private citizen to commit the act. The former Mahama appointees being investigated, as named by Mr Hamid in an interview with Joy FM’s Kojo Yankson on Wednesday, 24 May, include Mr Eugene Baffoe-Bonney, former Board Chairman of the NCA; Mr William Tevie, former Chief Executive Officer of the NCA; and Alhaji Osman, former Deputy National Security Coordinator. Their conspirator, according to Mr Hamid is one George Oppong. Mr Hamid said they engaged in the graft in connection with a contract between the Mahama administration and an Israeli company, NSO Group Technology Limited, in which the latter was to supply eavesdropping gadgets worth $6 million. The equipment were meant to help the government of Ghana monitor the calls of suspected terrorists. In the course of the transaction, Mr Hamid said a local agent – Infraloks Development Limited – charged $2million as facilitation fee, bringing the total amount to $8million. According to Mr Hamid, National Security, which did not have the funds for the equipment, allowed the NCA, which supervises the use of such equipment, to fund the project. The NCA top officials, he revealed, withdrew $4 million from the NCA’s kitty but gave only $1million to the Israeli firm. The surplus, according to Mr Hamid, was deposited into the personal accounts of Mr George Oppong, who fronted as an agent of Infraloks Development Ltd. He said Alhaji Osman orchestrated the entire deal. According to Mr Hamid, demands by the Israeli firm to be paid the $5 million balance after the Mahama administration lost power in the December 2016 elections prompted the new Akufo-Addo government to probe the transaction after which the graft was detected. Mr Hamid said: “They took $4 million from NCA accounts and paid $1 million to the Israeli company and then deposited $3 million in the accounts of the local agent, one Mr George Oppong, and proceeded to share the $3million among themselves.”

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• kyekyeku 8 years ago

  Laws doesn't work in Ghana and that is why people don't trust the system. Let Armed robbers kill one important person and the government will let the military go and patrol instead of the police.

  Laws doesn't work in Ghana and that is why people don't trust the system. Let Armed robbers kill one important person and the government will let the military go and patrol instead of the police.

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• AGBESI KWESI 8 years ago

  According to the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt Gen Obed Boamah Akwa, Capt. Maxwell Adam Mahama and the military detachment at Upper Denkyira West in the Central Region were not there to protect illegal miners. The Chief of Defen ...
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  According to the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt Gen Obed Boamah Akwa, Capt. Maxwell Adam Mahama and the military detachment at Upper Denkyira West in the Central Region were not there to protect illegal miners. The Chief of Defence Staff has insists the soldiers were officially assigned to the area. He emphasised that their presence in the area was “sanctioned” by the military high command with the knowledge of the defence ministry. The CDS fell short of telling Ghanaians what exactly soldiers in Denkyira Oboasi are doing but credible evidence on the ground shows the soldiers are in Denkyira Oboasi guarding a Chinese Mining Company plying their nefarious activity mining in a prohibited forest reserve. My investigations across the country indicate that, GAF personnel active support to illegal mining activity in Ghana is still prevalent. Currently, GAF personnel are still active guarding Chinese Galamseyers in a prohibited Forest around Kolgo area in the Upper East Region.
  So, from what the CDS is saying, it means the military high command sanctioned the protection of illegal miners in a prohibited forest reserve and, once the military has sanctioned such activity, it makes the whole galamsey operation in the forest reserve legal. My goodness, what a stupid CDS. This can only happen in Ghana where university graduates are useless. I suspect the CDS is a university graduate. That is why he is that stupid. Anyway, are Ghanaian soldiers trained to guard Chinese mines in Ghana.

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• GHANAMAN THE REAL 8 years ago

  What is the Military doing at the crime site visibly removing objects used in committing the heinous crime and contaminating the evidence that may have been useful to the Police criminal investigation? What did their action a ...
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  What is the Military doing at the crime site visibly removing objects used in committing the heinous crime and contaminating the evidence that may have been useful to the Police criminal investigation? What did their action achieve apart from scaring the residents of the case away and therefore impeding the Police investigation? If these trained men/women of the Armed Forces can behave so emotionally and recklessly without recourse to the Law and interfere with Police work the what can we expect of the ignorant villagers? There is so much education to be done in our sad country! God help us all.

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• Fiifi boateng 8 years ago

  Mahama lynching Let us assist police with investigation

  Mahama lynching Let us assist police with investigation

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• KP 8 years ago

  Indeed its pathetic and unfortunate to lose such a fine Soldier as Max but the military high command must be blamed for all that.
  We must investigate how many of such illegalities have our gallant men, managed with our tax b ...
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  Indeed its pathetic and unfortunate to lose such a fine Soldier as Max but the military high command must be blamed for all that.
  We must investigate how many of such illegalities have our gallant men, managed with our tax been detached to expose their lives to. How many of our soldiers have died through such illegalities,etc. Ah military paa can be corrupt like this. God have mercy on Ghana.
  The narrations do not add up as there are more questions than answers:
  1. Did the junior soldiers really see their officer jogging and asking for directions?
  2. Was there not any opportunity for the Capt to alert his men, including phone call during the altercation?
  3. Will one be right in smelling conspiracy by the town folks against the military, which was protecting their rival illegal foreign miners?

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