{"id":210293,"date":"2016-04-29T15:24:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=210293"},"modified":"2016-04-29T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:24:26","slug":"cid-must-investigate-dzifa-attivor-pnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=210293","title":{"rendered":"CID must investigate Dzifa Attivor – PNC \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

General Secretary of the People\u2019s National Convention (PNC), Atik Mohammed, wants the police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate the activities of the former Transport Minister, Dzifa Attivor<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

He cited the former Transport Minister’s recent controversial statement which suggested she feared to be jailed by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) if it wins power, as basis for his call.<\/p>\n

Atik Mohammed believes the statement is a clear indication that the former Minister who resigned her position after the overpriced\u00a0bus re-branding contract,\u00a0has something to hide.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”ZrMJCf5GdRpG5t6V2KSX5hO7EMN8JMUS”]Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, Atik Mohammed called on the CID to thoroughly investigate Madam Dzifa Attivor in a bid to unearth the truth behind the bus re-branding scandal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the CID they will produce a report that everybody would then know what the facts are but the committee that was supposedly formed at the instance of the Chief of Staff did not even tell us what happened in the bus re-branding saga.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody is privy to the report or content of the report they produced so we are unable to tell. But her comment for me suggests that she indeed played a significant role in this whole scandal…That is why she is saying that people will jail me when there is a change of government. It is because she knows the role she played and she is beginning to feel guilty already,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

I will be jailed if\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dzifa Attivor resigned as a Transport Minister following the public uproar against her ministry’s supervision of a decision by government to spend GHc3.6 million<\/strong><\/a><\/span> of Ghana\u2019s oil revenue on branding of some 116 Metro Mass Transit buses.<\/p>\n

A committee was subsequently set to investigate the matter and the company which executed the branding project, Smarttys Ghana Limited, have only been asked to refund an amount of GHc1.7 million to the state.<\/p>\n

But Dzifa Attivor, who has been on the quiet after resignation, resurfaced for the wrong reason.<\/p>\n

While addressing members of the NDC in the Volta Region, Dzifa Attivor pleaded for her party supporters to ensure that the NDC government is retained else she and the current Transport Minister, Fiifi Kwetey will go to jail under an NPP government.<\/p>\n

She has since been widely condemned for making the statements which has been described as ethnocentric.<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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