In a new statement, Mr. Amidu said the appointment of new heads for the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the National Commission on Civic Commission (NCCE) and the signing of ‘last minute’ contracts reinforces his conviction for the pre-election call upon the electorate to vote out the “incumbent looter Mahama.”

[contextly_sidebar id=”X73oOCqebt7MgUkK70myqnI3shIKrdmw”]President Mahama on Tuesday swore in  new heads for CHRAJ and the NCCE, a move which the incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has described as being duplicitous given prior agreements made during transition team meetings.

The government has also been criticized for the signing of various contracts including an €18 million e-waste contract signed by the Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga days after the party’s defeat at the December 7 polls.

The NPP has since served notice of its possible intent to review the CHRAJ Commissioner and other last-minute appointments made by the outgoing administration.

In the article, the former Attorney General indicated that “one would have thought that the massive defeat of the Looter Government never witnessed in the annals of Ghanaian history would make it circumspect of how it handles the last days of its dying pangs as a Looter Government so that the Independent Prosecutor may have mercy upon them. Unfortunately impunity and corrupt behavior once internalized is difficult to change over-night as subsequent events show.”

“What is going on in the transition to the new Government reinforces my conviction for my pre-election call upon the electorate to vote out the incumbent looter Mahama Government to stop the plundering of the public purse and get our looted monies back.”

“When I look at how the Looter Government is preparing its final exit after its miserable and unprecedented defeat at the polls, I am left in no doubt that Ghana would have been bankrupted with another four years of this looter Government in power,” Mr. Amidu stated.

Mr. Amidu also questioned new CHRAJ’s boss’ Joseph Whittal’s commitment to fighting corruption given his handling of the Mabey and Johnson case and his  “whitewashing” of the Ford Gift saga.

“My kinsman is being appointed the Commissioner for the CHRAJ when after wasting the public purse up to the Supreme Court to contest whether or not the suspects in the Mabey and Johnson case could be investigated for corruption he chose to go to sleep after promising he was going to investigate using the trove of credible evidence I sent CHRAJ in the case as Attorney General.”

“This same kinsman of mine whitewashed the Ford Expedition Saga even though he knew the CHRAJ had no jurisdiction over the President because the Attorney General could not prosecution him even if he were found culpable by CHRAJ,” the former AG noted.

Find Mr. Amidu’s full article here

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The party alleged that, among other deals, the Mahama-led government signed a fraudulent deal worth about $300 million for the supply of national security equipment.

[contextly_sidebar id=”QOLAkHkIN2VUOpQTwZaaycOsS4RqfMEF”]According to the party, government has already paid a UK-based firm, Santa Barron, $120 million dollars for the supply of the equipment on 30th November without due diligence.

Speaking at a press conference in Accra, a former General Secretary of the NPP, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, said the deal is one of many schemes created by the Mahama-led administration to siphon public funds for its campaign activities.

He also accused the government of inflating the cost of 500 borehole projects in collaboration with the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), at a unit cost of GHc60,000 Ghana cedis, instead of the standard industry price of GHc18, 000 Ghana cedis.

Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, November 22, Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie said an NPP-administration, led by Nana Akufo-Addo, would investigate the many dubious contracts signed by the NDC government to retrieve the monies paid.

“Corruption and thievery have characterized this John Mahama-led government over the years…at a time nurses and teachers have not been paid, several people do not have jobs to make ends meet, the government has given out $300 million to a bogus company to import materials to be given to National Security to man the elections.”

“How can you give out such an amount of money to a company that was established just yesterday to do this project? This shows the government is corrupt. Thievery has characterized this government,” he said.

‘NDC is corrupt’

The NPP ahead of this year’s elections has accused the governing NDC of engaging in various fraudulent transactions that is taking a negative toll on the country’s economy.

The party at a recent press conference accused the NDC of capitalizing on the procurement rules to engage in corrupt business practices.

Policy Advisor to the NPP flagbearer, Boakye Agyarko said that government’s decision to practice of procuring goods and services through sole sourcing has resulted in the country getting bad competitive rates.

Read the full statement here

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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