FDB is a decoy for Mills' campaign fund raising

STATEMENT BY THE NDC YOUTH WITH CONVICTION OF PRINCIPLE(YWCP) REAGARDING RECENT

HAPPENINGS AT THE FDBMAY 30 2011Accra, 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. We even have reports Dr. Opuni as part of his desperate attempts

to satisfy Ato Ahwoi and president Mills his pay masters, engages in illegal

surgical operation at the accidents and burns unit of the KATH in Kumasi during

weekends where he charges huge sums of money and does not allow the usage of the

Health insurance by such patients- a practice which is against the laws of Ghana.

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 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:John

VianneyNDC youth with conviction of principle (YWCP)0246632627