Alex Kwaku Tetteh, the founder and president of the Centre for International Trade and Education Ghana (CITEG), has fingered Dr Yaw Adutwum and the daughter of former Chief of Staff Frema Opare in an alleged scandalous deal worth GHS 90bn.
According to Alex Kwaku Tetteh, the former Education Minister, Dr Adutwum and Frema Opare’s daughter engaged in a scandalous rice farming deal worth GHS 90 billion.
He also alleged that Dr Bryan Acheampong is storing World Bank rice he intends to share with NPP delegates ahead of the party’s primaries.
Alex Kwaku Tetteh emphasised that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr Bryan Acheampong and Dr Adutwum should not have been allowed to contest for the NPP presidential elections, as they were part of the Akufo-Addo cabinet that caused the downfall of the NPP.
Speaking on the radio interview, Alex Tetteh detailed, “Bryan Acheampong is storing some rice and plans to distribute it to NPP delegates. I am just waiting. When we get there, the rice was brought in by the World Bank. He is also keeping chickens, about 5.5 million.
Adutwum and Frema Opare’s daughter engaged in a rice farming deal with his Nigerian husband for over 90 billion cedis. These are the people who are making NPP dirty”.
He further added, “Dr Bawumia, Dr Bryan Acheampong, and Dr Adutwum were cabinet ministers who were not supposed to be allowed to even contest for the NPP presidential election; they were the ones who dirtied the party. Those three, I don’t want to hear their names; they were all cabinet ministers who sat with Akufo-Addo to rule the country.
If Akufo-Addo failed, what was the use of these three? I don’t understand why delegates are encouraging these three people; they should have been disqualified”.
In other news, Daniel Domelevo, the former Auditor-General and a member of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team, has fumed over the lack of loot recovered so far in the nine months of the John Mahama government.
Domelevo described the Attorney General’s procedure in the ORAL cases as snail speed.
According to Daniel Domelevo, nine months is not a small thing.
He emphasised that before Ghanaians realised that President John Mahama would be done with the quarter.
The former Auditor-General noted that culprits and their lawyers are praying for a change in government.
Speaking in an interview, Daniel Domelevo stated, “With the briefing that the Attorney General has been giving, a lot of work is going on, but am I satisfied? No. I can’t see the end of the tunnel, not to talk of the light at the end of the tunnel”.
“The procedure currently being used is very slow. Nine months is not small. Before we realise, we’ll be done with the quarter.”
He added, “In fact, the prayer of the culprits and their lawyers is that there should be a change in government. Then you hear nolle prosequi, then our money is gone.
It begs one question: were they prepared before coming to office? Because when I look at the quantum of money we should recover and the snail speed at which we are moving, I wonder when we are going to get there,” he lamented.
He further added, “I think we have to change the speed at which we are moving and let people gain the confidence that things are moving and moving very fast. We need to change the legal framework.
If the government refuses to make these changes, it only tells me that either they are doing the same thing, they are also stealing, or they have the intention of stealing”.
Also, Kofi Bentil, a private legal practitioner, has said that the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) was overhyped and it is under-delivering.
According to Kofi Bentil, despite his criticism of ORAL performance, he maintains his support for the overall goal of fighting corruption.
Speaking on The Key Points on TV3, Saturday, September 27, Kofi Bentil stated, “ORAL was overhyped and it is under-delivering. But I support the call to fight corruption”.
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