The two have subsequently received their appointment letters from the presidency.

Citi News sources at the Flagstaff House indicated that, the two are among 7 persons who have been given ambassadorial roles by the President.

A member of the NPP Council of Elders, Baffour Adjei Bawuah, has been named Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States of America, while former Member of Parliament for Sekondi, Papa Owusu Ankomah, has been appointed Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK).

Former CHRAJ boss, Anna Bossman, is also headed for France to be Ghana’s Ambassador.

The others are Mr. Edward Boateng and former Sports Minister Rashid Bawa who have been appointed Ambassadors to China and Nigeria respectively.

This is the first set of ambassadors named by Nana Akufo-Addo. More ambassadorial appointments are expected to be made soon.

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Speaking to journalists at the Jubilee House on the missing cars, Mr. Otoo,who had earlier refused to comment on the back and forth over the missing cars saga, further indicated that the task-force mandated to search for the cars also discovered some 67 other cars that were not listed in the handing over notes.

[contextly_sidebar id=”rg58a3pRRFpx70Ohgc3aYRCQPeSKeOmJ”]“We were able to identify 67 vehicles not listed, and so if you deduct the 67 vehicles from the 301 missing vehicles, we still have 234 vehicles that could not be accounted for so the figure that came from Mr. Arhin’s office is correct, and if they want me as the Chair to confirm I am confirming, and I am saying the figure is over 200.”

This figure confirms with what the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin had earlier revealed.

His claims suggested that some officials of the immediate past NDC government were in possession of  200 vehicles belonging to the state.

But the NDC subseuquently disputed claims, saying government duly handed over all state vehicles to the new government.

A former Deputy Minister of Communication under the erstwhile NDC government, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, said  the claims about the missing cars could not be true, insisting that everything was accounted for in the list presented to the new administration.

“The claim that this vehicles cannot be found is completely untrue to the extent that they [NPP] are unable to tell you what specific vehicles they cannot find. We have given you a list, the vehicles are parked at specific places that you are aware of and you unable to say they registration number and chassis number of the missing vehicles.”

“It is when they are able to provide this specific information that we will be able to cross reference with the list that we gave them and then those vehicles will be looked for if they are indeed missing. But at this stage and as far as we are concerned, every vehicle that we need to account for, we have done, and the onus is on them to provide very specific information,” Kwakye Ofosu earlier stated.

NDC staffers purchased 271 saloon cars at the presidency – Sam George 

It appears however, that majority of these unaccounted cars were among the ones that were bought by members of the outgoing government.

This was the claim made by NDC Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Samuel George. The MP speaking on Citi FM’s ‘The Big Issue’, said that about 271 of the vehicles allegedly missing from the President’s vehicle pool, were purchased by some officials of the former government.

According to Same George, although he declined to purchase the vehicle allocated to him while serving as a Presidential staffer under the former government, some of his colleagues bought theirs after the vehicles were duly properly valuated by the State Transport Company.

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This follows a Supreme Court order to the Electoral Commission (EC) to extend the nomination period to the close of Tuesday, November 8, 2016, for all disqualified presidential aspirants to make the necessary corrections on their nomination forms.

Speaking to the media after the judgement, Mr. Ayikoi Otoo, a former Attorney General, said a two-day window would have been preferable to afford the parties more time to correct their errors.

“Today is Monday; and the close of day tomorrow [Tuesday], at 5:00pm, may not suit everybody; so I thought perhaps Wednesday would have been better so that they have two days to do the corrections and close of day Wednesday, they can present them. But unfortunately, the Supreme Court is saying that once the election is fixed for the 7^th of December, it is better we work hard to ensure that we work within the period,” he explained.

Mr. Ayikoi Otoo however said the period for the correction would be enough for the PPP as he noted that “we have only one anomaly which we will deal with.”

The Commission disqulified Dr. Nduom because the number of subscribers to his nomination forms did not meet the requirements of the EC’s regulation, and one subscriber endorsed his forms in two different districts.

Background

But the EC went to Court because it disgareed with the High Court ruling. Among other things, it prayed the court to quash the decision of the High Court, and also make a ruling that will settle all other suits on the disqualification.

The Supreme Court justices in their ruling on Tuesday, also ordered a suspension of all lawsuits challenging the EC’s disqualifications of flagbearers, for all those affected to amend the errors on their forms.

In explaining the judgment of the seven-member panel of Justices, the presiding Justice, Sophia Adinyira, said their decision was to enable the EC give hearing to all parties involved in the legal tussle over the qualification, due to limited time left for the election to be held.

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