{"id":292895,"date":"2017-02-11T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T07:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=292895"},"modified":"2017-02-11T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T07:55:30","slug":"npp-embarrassing-ghana-internationally-over-missing-cars-kwakye-ofosu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/npp-embarrassing-ghana-internationally-over-missing-cars-kwakye-ofosu\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP embarrassing Ghana internationally over \u2018missing cars’ – Kwakye Ofosu"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former\u00a0Deputy Minister for Communication, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, says the New Patriotic Party<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (NPP) government, is embarrassing the country in the sight of the international community by the way it is handling the issue of state vehicles handed over to it by the erstwhile National Democratic Congress government.<\/p>\n

According to him, the NPP has not been truthful in dealing with the supposed\u00a0missing state vehicles<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0saga.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”XR2dtD1KMdNRjsAxhvflVuUKbmRaDeJJ”]Speaking on Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Friday, [February 10, 2017], Mr Kwakye Ofosu said, the NPP\u2019s desire to\u00a0rush to the media to make announcements without conducting the needed audit to reconcile documents of the cars<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, is improper.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us not underestimate the kind of damage that this sort of behaviors does to our country because this news is on the BBC. There are those who may think that they are deriving some political mileage from this, but eventually, it embarrasses Ghana as a whole. It creates the impression that we are not a serious country and we simply cannot get this record-keeping right. And I don\u2019t think it is proper. We don\u2019t have to do this to ourselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, revealed to the media on Wednesday [February 8], that there are so far\u00a0208 cars unaccounted for from the Flagstaff House\u2019s vehicle pool, based on the assessment of some car models in the inventory.<\/p>\n

His claims suggested that some officials of the immediate past government were in possession<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of the vehicles, but according to Mr Kwakye Ofosu, the NPP government must consult the relevant authorities at the various ministries, departments, and agencies to get information about the other vehicles it claims are missing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that a vehicle belongs to the office of the president does not mean you will find it necessarily at the Flagstaff House; because these vehicles even though they belong to the presidency, are given out for the use of various government officials and agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is appropriate documentation covering all the cars. If any vehicle is taken out, it is well documented; and they have one of the best recording keeping system at the Presidency as far as logistics and vehicles are concerned; so it is very easy to reconcile. What you need to do is to speak to relevant officials who have possession of these documents and information to be able to help you with a broad picture as far as logistics and vehicles of the presidency are concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mahama\u2019s Ford gift part of vehicle pool<\/strong><\/p>\n

He added that, the $100,000 Ford vehicle gifted to former President John Mahama by a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, had been added to the state\u2019s vehicle pool bequeathed to the new government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat vehicle is still in the possession of the Presidency. About 370 vehicles were handed over physically to the Ayikoi Otoo-led committee and that vehicle is part of it [vehicle pool],\u201d he said on Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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