CORRUPTION: A.M.A. Presiding Member Caught!

The Presiding Member of the Accra Metropolitan

Assembly (AMA), Hon. Desmond Addo-Biney, has a lot of questions to answer about

several skeletons that the Daily Post has discovered in his wardrobe.

From the illegal citing of his house on government

land through giving permission to developers to put up structures illegally on

government land at the Okponglo Electoral Area in East Legon where he is the

Assemblyman to defrauding the state of thousands of Ghana cedis (millions of

old Ghana cedis), Addo-Biney has his hands in enough shady deals deserving a

lot of explanation or his facing the full riguors of the law.

Investigations by this paper (and other allied

papers) reveal that the Presiding Member of the AMA has illegally put up a

house (his home) on government land, having failed to acquire the permit that

will allow him to do so legally.

The one-storey green-painted house, together with a

mini-restaurant which is being operated by his wife is situated on the premises

of the La Bawaleshie School in Agyiringanor at East Legon. As a result, the

school has been unable to fence its premises because doing so will find the

Presiding Member’s home within the inner perimeter of the school.

Further investigations by this newspaper reveal the

springing up of many structures on AMA land in the area without permit. Most of

the developers, when confronted, say they have been given permission by

Addo-Biney to do so. This conduct is in clear violation of the laws of the AMA

and is resulting in confrontations between AMA officials and the developers.

Then also is the discovery that the Presiding Member

has duped the AMA off the sum of GH¢1,200 and saddled it with an extra cost of

GH¢10,652.00.

According to a confidential report cited by this

paper from the External Audit Team Manager of the AMA to the Metro Director of

Finance, Addo-Biney, though allocated a vehicle , GT7057Z, by the Assembly in

May 2009, and though he was drawing fuel from the account of the Assembly, still

went ahead to collect Travelling & Transport (T&T) allowance for

attending meetings within and without the Assembly.

By the close of accounts in 2010, he had gobbled

GH¢1,200 (¢12million) as T&T in addition to the free car and petrol he was

enjoying. The Audit Manager revealed also that the vehicle broke down and is

costing the AMA a whopping GH¢10,652.00 (¢106.520 million) to put back on the

road.

Tongues are wagging at the AMA about the corrupt

activities of Hon. Addo-Biney. It is now left to see if the powers-that-be will

act quickly to save the tax payers money from his claws.

Meanwhile, other shocking acts of financial

malfeasance on the part of the Presiding Member have been uncovered by the Daily

Post.

More Anon