The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo has been dragged to court for allegedly keeping a state vehicle for 19 months after leaving office as Attorney General and Minister of Justice.
[contextly_sidebar id=”azA9myQet5VzhIau3tEQEhDkAWHm479x”]In the writ filed by George Spencer Quaye and Alex Doe on Wednesday, they want the court to declare Nana Addo’s behaviour as “unacceptable for somebody aspiring to be President of the Republic of Ghana or an act of a person unfit to be the leader of the Republic of Ghana.”
In a subsequent statement, the two who are members of the pressure group Inside Ghana said, the vehicles in question are a Nissan Patrol with registration number GT 5621 T and a Toyota Land Cruiser GT 1983. X.
The two, who are known activists of the governing National Democratic Congress, (NDC) also alleged that the NPP flagbearer used those vehicles during his political campaign in the lead up to the 2008 general elections.
“We are therefore by this press release urging him to settle the above mentioned amount to the State as cost for keeping (hiring) the 2 vehicles at a cost of $200/day for each vehicle for 19 months at an exchange rate of GHS 3.5,” the statement said.
They are asking the court to make Nana Addo pay a total of “GHC 798,000 in the coming days for keeping state vehicles… ”
The action of the two is similar to that of pressure group Occupy Ghana which also sued former Energy Minister Dr Joe Oteng Adjei, for keeping one of the luxury vehicles the Ministry bought for a rural electrification project for months.
Occupy Ghana is asking the court to order Dr. Oteng-Adjei to pay $500 to the state for each of the 222 days that he kept the Lexus, after he was removed from office as Minister, which will amount to about GHC383,000.
By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom/citifmonline.com/Ghana