{"id":254047,"date":"2016-10-02T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254047"},"modified":"2016-10-02T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T12:00:41","slug":"ford-saga-youve-skeletons-in-your-cupboard-too-ndc-to-ppp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/ford-saga-youve-skeletons-in-your-cupboard-too-ndc-to-ppp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford saga: \u2018You’ve skeletons in your cupboard too\u2019 \u2013 NDC to PPP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), \u00a0is threatening to strip naked the flagbearer of the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP) if they don\u2019t give up on the probe into\u00a0President John Mahama\u2019s acceptance of the $100,000 Ford Expedition gift.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour flagbearer [Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom] was investigated by the SFO [now EOCO] \u00a0and the report is all over the place. So if you want to go that tangent, bring it on, we would be ready to hear whatever stuff you want to put out there and we would listen to you with rapt attention and I can assure you that if you want to go on that tangent, I have people ready for you,\u201d a member of the NDC, Kojo Adu Asare,\u00a0said on Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s news analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/strong>, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"Adu
Adu Asare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The PPP, the youth wing of the CPP, and a private citizen, petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate President Mahama for accepting the Ford gift\u00a0in 2012 from a Burkinabe contractor, who is said to have benefited from some lucrative government projects .<\/p>\n

CHRAJ after the investigation said it did not find the President guilty of bribery, fraud or conflict of interest; but said the President only breached the gift policy.<\/p>\n

However, the PPP has threatened to pursue the case to its logical conclusion.<\/p>\n

Adu Asare says\u00a0the NDC is ready to defend the President, and would not mind exposing the wrongs of the PPP Flagbearer in retaliation.<\/p>\n

\"Mahama<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should also bear in mind that, there are skeletons in people\u2019s cupboards and as we speak, whilst you have bent to pick up a stone to hit some bear that is sitting somewhere, there are others who are also taking a good view of your back side so be careful the kind of things you put out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Go to court if you don\u2019t trust CHRAJ\u2019s report<\/strong><\/p>\n

He also said persons who do not trust CHRAJ\u2019s report could pursue the case to which ever level they want.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who feel aggrieved just like any case that goes to court, if they feel aggrieved by the determination of this issue with the CHRAJ they are at liberty to move to whichever level that they think they can get something better than this. But we will not leave in the past with them. We will move on, we will do our work, its election time and the president is going to continue to remain focused,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

SFO investigates Nduom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Nduom, who was working with the Public Enterprises Commission (PEC), was in 1995 investigated by the SFO [now Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO)] over allegations of corruption and tax evasion.<\/p>\n

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