[contextly_sidebar id=”AQKZoXhpkNSqRp3YjHnu2AG5A7KyBvzh”]Prof Adei cited a recent trip to Cape Coast in which he said the Vice President’s convoy consisted of 16 SUVs.<\/p>\n
But the Veep’s office,\u00a0in a\u00a0statement, insisted that, Dr. Bawumia only used a maximum of seven vehicles on trips outside Accra and “on this particular trip to Cape Coast, the Vice President used a total of 7 cars.”<\/p>\n
“The Office would like to make it clear that the Vice President and his team use a maximum of 7 vehicles on trips outside Accra and not 16. The 7 vehicles include a leading police vehicle, security detail, Protocol, the media team and an ambulance.”<\/p>\n The statement, however noted that, there were times the Veep’s convoy may be swelled by the addition of other state officials.<\/p>\n “It should, however, be noted that on many occasions (including funerals) while on a trip, several other people, including the Police Commander of the area, Ministers, MPs, MMDCEs, CEOs and party officials may decide to meet and accompany the Vice President on arrival.”<\/p>\n There have been several complaints from drivers in the country about the huge convoys which accompany senior, and sometimes lower-level state officials.<\/p>\n Many people have expressed displeasure with the cost of procuring and maintaining all the vehicles, while others are unhappy about the traffic that is created as a result.<\/p>\n Professor Adei, a courageous critic of\u00a0public office holders, who spoke at the 20th<\/sup>-anniversary celebration of Morison and Associates, an international audit firm based in Ghana, said he planned to wage a \u201cone-man crusade\u201d if the situation persists.<\/p>\n \u201cSo far, the government is doing well, except that if you go to the right quarters, tell them that the next time I see Bawumia or any of them travelling with 16 four-wheel drives, occupying the two lanes, I\u2019m going to do a one-man crusade. That must be stopped at once,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Find below the full statement<\/strong><\/p>\n VICE PRESIDENT USES A MAXIMUM OF 7 CARS, NOT 16 FOR TRAVELS OUTSIDE ACCRA.<\/p>\n The attention of the Office of the Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has been drawn to a recent media publication following comments by Professor Stephen Adei, former Rector of GIMPA, that the convoy of the Vice President on a recent trip to Cape Coast consisted of 16 SUVs.<\/p>\n The Office would like to make it clear that the Vice President and his team use a maximum of 7 vehicles on trips outside Accra and not 16. The 7 vehicles include a leading police vehicle, security detail, Protocol, the media team and an ambulance. On this particular trip to Cape Coast, the Vice President used a total of 7 cars.<\/p>\n It should, however, be noted that on many occasions (including funerals) while on a trip, several other people, including the Police Commander of the area, Ministers, MPs, MMDCEs, CEOs and party officials may decide to meet and accompany the Vice President on arrival.<\/p>\n Signed –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The office of Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, has refuted claims that\u00a0the Vice President has a convoy of 16 vehicles accompanying him on trips. Following a threat by the former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei,\u00a0 to start a campaign against state officials to force them to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[389,921,3],"class_list":["post-361895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-bawumia","tag-convoy","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"File](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Convoy-1024x683.jpg\")
\nFrank Agyei-Twum
\nDirector of Communications
\nOffice of the Vice President<\/p>\n