{"id":156451,"date":"2015-10-01T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=156451"},"modified":"2015-10-01T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:17:35","slug":"ibrahim-mahama-must-pay-for-using-states-equipment-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/ibrahim-mahama-must-pay-for-using-states-equipment-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahim Mahama must pay for using state equipment &#8211; Minority \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) Members of Parliament want the Engineers and Planners company limited to pay for using the state\u2019s equipment to dredge the Odaw drain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To them, the equipment were procured \u00a0to be distributed to the various Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to help improve sanitation in the country and not for private use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;eCtbD8AnYrGTORfKbv9iFxQqecxZIuDb&#8221;]They lamented that \u201cit came as a huge surprise to us that some of the very equipment and machinery found their way into private hands (to wit Engineers and Planners on the instruction of Nii Lante Vanderpuije, a Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development).\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a news conference in Accra today [Thursday], the Minority Spokesperson on Local Government, Kwesi Ameyaw Kyeremeh argued that \u201cthis amounts to a diversion of state property to an individual because of his links to the top echelons of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe think that Engineers and Planners should be made to pay for the full cost of the machinery and equipment improperly released to it and in its possession,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Local Government released some <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/24\/a-good-man-is-never-honored-in-his-country-ibrahim-mahama\/\" target=\"_blank\">state equipment<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to the Engineers and Planners company to dredge the Odaw drain an<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">d<\/span> <strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/09\/12\/ibrahim-mahama-returns-govts-dredging-equipment\/\" target=\"_blank\">have been returned<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by the company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They included 20 Man Tipper trucks, 4 Komatsu dozers, 3 Komatsu excavators, 3 Komatsu wheel dozers and 2 HBM NOBAS motor graders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ibrahim-mahama-returns-state-equipment-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151059 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ibrahim-mahama-returns-state-equipment-3.jpg\" alt=\"ibrahim mahama returns state equipment (3)\" width=\"551\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ibrahim-mahama-returns-state-equipment-3.jpg 551w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ibrahim-mahama-returns-state-equipment-3-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision by government to release the equipment to the company, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/25\/ibrahim-mahama-must-return-state-equipment-now-minority-demands\/\" target=\"_blank\">generated some public outcry<\/a><\/strong><\/span> because the company belongs to the younger brother of President Mahama, Ibrahim Mahama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minority had earlier accused Ibrahim Mahama of using the equipment for his personal gain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ibrahim-mahama-returns-state-equipment-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151057 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ibrahim-mahama-returns-state-equipment-1.jpg\" alt=\"ibrahim mahama returns state equipment (1)\" width=\"549\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ibrahim-mahama-returns-state-equipment-1.jpg 549w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ibrahim-mahama-returns-state-equipment-1-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ameyaw Kyeremeh during the press conference charged the Local Government Ministry to disclose where the equipment are being kept and why it has not been given to the MMDAs \u201cas stated in its own Memorandum to Parliament?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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