Pressure group Occupy Ghana has 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.
[contextly_sidebar id=”eFH1KUmKbcU040zEzmCt1KuosG18pVyw”]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.
This comes to a total of about GHC383,000.
The pressure group filed the suit on Thursday, March 12, 2015 at a Fast Track High court in Accra.
In a media interview, Dr Joe Oteng-Adjei, admitted keeping the state’s luxury vehicle, months after he left office.
This however was after the Member of Parliament for Adanse Asokwa, KT Hammond revealed in an earlier interview with Citi News that Dr Oteng-Adjei was keeping the vehicle.
The Minister clarified that he “did not steal it” and has since returned the vehicle to the Energy Ministry after the revelation.
He further explained that he kept the vehicle because there was an agreement between himself and the Ministry of Energy, to keep the car because his new Ministry’s (Environment and Science) “… financial situation was a bit difficult…so that we don’t spend money to go and buy another car.”
Meanwhile KT Hammond has made further claims that Dr Oteng-Adjei is still hiding another state vehicle.
Responding to that claim, he said he believed KT Hammond is on a mission to tarnish his image.
By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom/citifmonline.com/Ghana