The brouhaha surrounding the supposedly 200
missing cars from the Flagstaff house appears an endless one as one of the
listed beneficiaries of state vehicles allegedly sold for ‘peanuts’ in 2008 has
lashed out at the NDC for circulating ‘half-baked truths’. A list
revealing 70 former government appointees who bought state vehicles prior to the
exit of erstwhile Kufuor administration on January 7 2009 circulated on social
media on Monday.
Former Minister of Manpower Youth and Employment Nana
Akomea who was listed as one such person has been accused of buying a state
vehicle for GH¢800 in 2008, after the NPP lost power.
In a Facebook post
on Tuesday, Nana Akomea explained that contrary to what reports depict, the
actual value of the vehicle was $800; equivalent to GHC800 at the time.
He found it strange that the very same valuations presented by the State
Transport Corporation (STC) in 2000 and 2016 on State vehicles bought by the NDC
were accepted as value for money but rejected in 2008.
The topic of
missing 200 state vehicles began when Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications
at the Presidency, disclosed to Ghanaians that over Two Hundred (200) state
vehicles had disappeared from the fleet of cars at the Presidency.
The
vehicles given to the officials of the past NDC government for official use were
meant to be returned after their exit from office.
But in a statement on
Thursday, the NDC refuted those claims and described Mr. Arhin’s claims as
“false, baseless and without merit”, adding that they represented a continuation
of the “distortions and bad faith that have characterised the conduct of the NPP
side of the Transition team.”
Nana Akomea has hinted that the list of 200
state vehicles that were bought by government appointees will be released soon
and the truth exposed.
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