The Deputy National Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Akamba says the NDC is not putting up any new party headquarters.
“The NDC has not acquired any new building, neither are we putting up any ultra modern office building,” he said on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem on Monday.
Joshua Akamba was reacting to allegations by the Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) that the NDC is building a US$20 million flashy party headquarters at Adabraka in Accra.
AFAG made the allegation last week and promised to provide evidence soon.
Meanwhile, earlier this year, the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah told party delegates in Sunyani that the party was building an ultra modern headquarters in Accra which was nearing completion.
Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana’s first president, who recently fell out with the ruling National Democratic Congress, says a member of the party Tuesday attempted to bribe him with cash and a car so he would do the party's bidding. But he warns the party to stay away from him.
Sekou who spoke on Asempa FM claimed a former NDC member of parliament arranged a meeting with him Tuesday during which he (ex-MP) attempted to bribe him with a car and an unspecified amount of money but he rejected it.
His claim of attempted bribery was vehemently opposed by panel member Alhaji Bature, who maintained that the named ex-MP is a noted philanthropist who could have made the offer without any ulterior motive.
Sekou Nkrumah was dismissed as the Coordinator of the National Youth Council over a year ago after he launched a scathing attack on President J.E.A. Mills, labelling him as a weak leader in an interview with the Africa Watch magazine.
He announced his resignation from the NDC on Tuesday, September 13, explaining that his continued stay in the NDC could be an obstacle to his sister, Samia Nkrumah’s new political role as chairman of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP).
However, narrating the incident on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Tuesday, Sekou Nkrumah said he was approached by the General Secretary of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) who told him of the intentions of the ex-MP, now an established businessman, to meet him.
According to Sekou, upon reaching the house together with Benard Monah, the ex-MP insisted on giving him (Sekou) the vehicle and money.
When challenged by Ekosii Sen host Nana Bobie Ansah on the credibility of his claims, Sekou said “I don’t make up stories”.
Dr. Nkrumah stated that his refusal was based on his principle never to accept anything from any close associate of President J.E.A. Mills or from a party he resigned from.
The Mills critic was convinced the 'bribe' was a trap intended to compromise him to run down the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and their flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo ahead of the 2012 general elections.
Sekou Nkrumah observed that should he had fallen for the trap; it would have undermined his integrity as an objective and credible politicians in the country.
“The NDC should stay away from Sekou; I'm just supporting Nana Akufo-Addo for a change”.
Over 4.58 million barrels of crude oil produced from the Jubilee fields are unaccounted for as Kwabena Duffuor, Finance Minister under the ruling National Democratic Congress, and Tullow Oil have on separate occasions stated different production figures for the same period under review.
Using the average crude oil price over the material period of January-September 2011, the missing barrels add up to $493.5 million or $458 million, going by the lower hedging price that the Government bet its crude oil sales on.
Paragraph 58 of the 2012 budget presented by Dr Duffuor on the 16th of November 2011 states: “Actual production from January to September 2011 is 17.42 million barrels. It is expected that 2011 will close with an annual oil production of 24.78 million barrels.”
However, just a week earlier, on 9th November 2011, a press statement by Tullow Oil, the largest partner in the Jubilee Field project, stated that during the same period under review, “over 22 million barrels of oil have been produced and 21 oil cargoes have been safely exported.”
The disparity in these production figures put out by the NDC government and Tullow Oil has raised further doubts over transparency in the actual volumes of crude oil being lifted from Ghana.
Earlier this year, anxiety gripped the nation over allegations of improper accounting of how much oil was being drilled following the reported malfunctioning of flow metres on the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah.
This malfunction appeared to have been glossed over by the operators of the FPSO until a leading civil society advocate on oil and gas of Ibis Ghana, and a fellow of the Danquah Institute, Mohhamed Amin Adam, raised alarm over it in May. It was not until August 2 that the flow metres were fixed.
In a related worrying development, despite the fact that new metres have been installed, it is reported that the calibrations on the production line metres of the FPSO have not yet been verified by the Ghana Standards Board.
In an article written by the same Mohammed Amin Adam, he states that one of the major problems of oil producing countries in our region and which has promoted oil theft has been metre tampering.
According to him, the NDC Government has failed to provide the Standards Board with the logistics or resources to hire reputable organisations to partner them in verifying the newly installed flow metres.
As a result of this, Ghanaians cannot be sure if the new metres have not already been tampered with, and wrong declaration of crude oil quantities made since no verification has been done, he argues.
“It is equally appalling to hear that Tullow blocked the use of electronic seals installed on the flow metres for independent verification of oil exports on the excuse that they were not factored into the design of the FPSO when it was built. Thus, the onshore centre established by the Ghana Revenue Authority to which electronic data will be transmitted from the electronic seals has become a waste on Ghana’s finances,” the oil and gas expert says.
Mr Amin Adam says, as a country, we cannot, therefore, be sure if the reported oil export data reported to the Ghana Revenue Authority by the two CEPS officers is correct since there is no independent verification by the Ghana Revenue Authority.
In light of these developments, Mr Amin Adam implored Government to be proactive in the design of the new FPSO for the exploitation of Enyera-Tweneboa fields so as to ensure that provisions are made for the installation of GRA’s electronic seals for independent verification of oil production and exports.
“This has become important because failure to do this at this time will result in Tullow blocking the use of the onshore electronic centres in the new FPSO, a situation that has already caused financial loss to the state,” he says.
The phenomenon, currently ongoing, where the Ghana Revenue Authority is being prevented from using its own mechanisms to assess and collect revenues from the export of oil, according to Mr Amin Adam, contravenes Section 15 of the Petroleum Income Tax Law and PNDC Law 188.
These laws, according to Mr Amin Adam, empower the Commissioner of Taxes or his agents to enter any premises without prior notice for the purpose of assessing and collecting taxes due the Republic of Ghana.
“It is sad that government has been silent on this,” he says.
In addition to the Standards Board’s off-shore monitoring, Mr Amin Adam calls for regular independent international certification of the functioning and the performance of all measuring instruments including production and flow metres.
Wayome is a self confessed NDC financier who confessed not having any contract with government of Ghana and yet was able to use his party card to get the MILLS-MAHAMA led government to award him 58 million cedis so he could use part of it to finance the 2012 campaign of Attah Mills incompetent government
Alfred Agbesi Woyome a crook who connived with NDC to dupe Ghana of 58million cedis
Wayome is a self confessed NDC financier who confessed not having any contract with government of Ghana and yet was able to use his party card to get the MILLS-MAHAMA led government to award him 58 million cedis so he could use part of it to finance the 2012 campaign of Attah Mills incompeteng government
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"No country is going to create wealth if its leaders [Rawlings, Mills, Alfread Agbesi Wayome, Bettry Mould-Iddrisu, Muntaka, Sipa Yankey, Ato Quashie, Boniface Siddique, Kwame Peprah, Obed Asamoah, P.V. Obeng, Muhammed Mumuni, Mahama Ayariga, Agyemang Konadu Rawlings, Kuffour etc..] exploit the economy to enrich themselves, or police can be bought off by drug traffickers. No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top, or the head of the port authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery" PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Jerry Rawlings. a populist and serial coup maker. A dictator for 19 years, he did his best to do what African dictators are best noted for: corruption, murder, assassination and abuse of power. Under his rule all former heads of State in Ghana were arrested and shot by firing squad. Eminent judges were also arrested and killed by him and his blood thirsty morons. Many Ghanaians disappeared without trace and those with bunsinesses were imprisoned and their assets confiscated.Though he claimed it was necessary to kill in order to clean Ghana of corruption he himself has been linked to a number of corruption scandals in the country.Rawlings is alleged to have received $5m from Sani Abacha. Prof. Wole Soyinka wants that money refunded to Nigeria. Rawlings had all 4 of his children tuition paid for by his 'friends'. He has been named in a bribery scandal in Norway in which he allegedly received US 1,690,000 dollars from the firm called Scancem. He says he cannot afford a lawyer to bring charges against the newspaper that revealed the scale of corruption that took place between him, members of his administration and Scancem. He bought armoured plated Land Cruisers and Jaguars for himself with stolen money but claims they were all bought for him by his 'friends'. He and his corrupt ministers supervised the sale of majority of the companies built by Dr.Nkrumah, but could not render any account for the sale of those national assets. His wife is believed to have taken $17m from the sale of one the companies and is yet to pay. Some of the Ministers who looted the nation with him have been convicted and others are under investigation.He lives in a compund of five houses in his Ridge residence and drives in a convoy. Meanwhile 70% of Ghanaians whom he claimed to have served deligently live on $2 a day but Rawlings calls his opulence lifestyle simple.He is alledged to have received $3.5m from the governor of Rivers State in Nigeria to finance the 2008 NDC campaign. He claims he has never stolen a peny from us.Besides all these he wants Atta Mills to achieve in one year what he failed to achieve in 19 years. In what appaers to confirm his reputation as one of the most corrupt leaders ever to have govern Ghana, Mr. Kwame Pianim a Ghanaian politician, economist and management consultant says “To me if you go to any country where there is corruption, the head of state is corrupt, if he is not corrupt it won’t happen…and fortunately for Ghana now, we have a president (Atta Mills) that at least I will put my hand in the fire for, that he will not steal from the people. I have seen him on two occasions give envelopes back and I didn’t see it happen under John the first or John the second but at least now we are progressing and we have a president who I think will not steal from the people. How is he going to make sure that the people below him will also not do that – that is the question.” The first John refers to Jerry John Rawlings while the second John refers to John Kuffour who succeeded Rawlings.
AGYEMANG RAWLINGS
President 31st December Movement. Like her husband she has been accused of taking over companies Nkrumah established without paying for them.
P.V. OBENG
PV Obeng a one time adviser to Rawlings and described in many corruption documents as prime minister was named in the Scancem bribery trial in Norway as one of the main recipient of the money deposited in the Uni Bank in Luxembourg. He has been linked to PSC Tema Shipyard drydock corruption scandal.
George Sipa Yankey
Sipa Yankey a former convict (convicted for causing financial loss to the State), has been forced to resign as minister of Health. He is alledged to have accepted bribes from a British Company called Mabey and Johnson in exchange for bridge building contracts. He is one of those who milked the nation with Rawlings and was brought into government by Attah Mills to continue to do what he knows best: accepting bribes and failing to supervise companies he ought to supervise. He says he is innocent because the money he received was given to him by another member of the corruption cartel.
MUNTAKA MUBARAK
Muntaka Mubarak former minister of Youth and Sport. The first person forced to resign in disgrace under Atta Mills regime. Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak,was severally accused for using public funds worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to purchase items such as diapers, oil and meat among others to feed his household. It was also alleged that the Minister travelled with his girl friend and slept in a luxurious hotel in La Cote d'Ivoire, when the local Black stars went to the grand finale of the Championship of African Nations (CHAN) tournament, and also allocated a VW Passat to his wife among other numerous allegations levelled against him by a former accountant of the Youth and Sports Ministry. The irony is that he is still remains a member of Parliament for his constituency and has the audacity to call himself 'Honourable Member of Parliament'. How can a person resign as a minister on charges of corruption and still sit in our august house of Parliament to make laws for us? No wonder corruption is tearing the nation apart.
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