STATEMENT BY THE NDC YOUTH WITH CONVICTION OF PRINCIPLE(YWCP) REAGARDING RECENT
HAPPENINGS AT THE FDB
MAY 31 2011
Accra, Ghana
When reports broke that President Mills was planning to spend 90m Ghana cedes
on his desperate bid to cling on the NDC leadership at it’s primaries in
Sunyani, many people wondered where such colossal sums of monies could be
coming from but it is becoming clearer some of these sources. Over the past
one week, there have been reports revealing how a state institution such as the
food and drugs board have been used as a decoy to divert large sums of tax
revenue for campaign purposes.
The NDC youth with conviction of principle (YWCP) have no doubts that much
more money than 90Mgh is been sourced through different sources including hook
and crooked means to run his campaign.
According to a new crusading guide report, a man named only as Haissan was
arrested by a combined team of personnel from the FDB, Ghana police service and
the Ghana revenue authority for hauling large quantities of food and drugs into
five secret warehouses in the country (some of which warehouses are in Kumasi)
without paying the requisite tariffs and duties due government. Not long after
his arrest, there are machinations to cover-up the case and get Mr. Haissam
Haroun off the hook. The question many are asking is why officials of the FDB
would be scheming to get this man off the hook of the law when he has openly
and clearly committed an offense that requires him to face the law?
NDC youth with conviction of principle (YWCP) investigations reveal that there
is a connection between the evasion of tariffs through the FDB and the 90m
campaign funds projected by President Mills. We found out that Dr. Stephen
Opuni, the man at the helm of affairs at the FDB, a close associate of Ato
Ahwoi who is ‘shadow president’ of Ghana is clearly aware and is part of these
schemes to divert these funds for the Atta Mills campaign purpose in Ashanti
where Dr. Stephen Opuni is facilitating the transfer of funds believed to be a
part of the 90m gh budget projection.
YWCP investigations also reveal that Dr. Stephen Opuni is afraid to be
implicated when this Haissam Haroun man is held to answer, thus, his attempt to
cover up with the help of his sponsors in the Mills team. According to our
sources, this company and many others have been donating their ‘tariffs and
duties’ to the campaign funds of G.A.M.E. Those whose thinking was that
President Mills could not raise such amount of money for his campaign can now
understand the subtle methods been employed by the G.A.M.E to by all means win
a primary election in which Atta Mills is obviously trailing in real opinion
polls.
YWCP decries the use of such illegal ways of acquiring campaign funds and
especially when such funds are been used to corrupt our democratic process as a
party. We therefore call on Dr. Stephen Opuni to come clean on this rot in the
FDB. We also demand that the president Mill orders immediate investigations
into the illegal activities at the FDB and bring Dr. Opuni to book with the
same alacrity with which he requested an investigation into the allegation of
90m GH for his campaign by Mr. Herbert Mensah, a friend of the NDC founder
Jerry Rawlings.
The NDC youth with conviction of principle also demand a stop to all these
machinations by G.A.M.E to burn the will of the NDC people at the July congress
through money influence and calls for a campaign free of undue influence as
well as hook and crook means.
Signed:
Amenga-Etego SaCut
NDC youth with conviction of principle (YWCP)
027 1070555
