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President Mills urged to come clean on former President Kufuor's status
Accra, March 24, GNA – The Minority in Parliament on Tuesday
said there had been disturbing developments in the last few days
relating to former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s use of
government property for his office and the use of specific cars
after leaving office.
They said few people had questioned the use of these facilities
and national security apparatus had joined in the debate.
They contended that a group calling itself Ga Adangme Youth had
also at a press conference insisted former President Kufuor
vacated the said premises immediately because it was situated on
Ga land.
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Minority Leader, who read out a
statement at the foyer of Parliament at a press conference,
said:
“The question is: is
this group acting on its own volition, or are there some
sinister political forces behind the call.”
The Minority Leader said long before former President Jerry John
Rawlings left office, he had acquired for his use and that of
his family some government property and had taken away a number
of cars.
“Yet former President Kufuor would not be allowed to keep these
three cars pending the implementation of the Chinery Hesse
recommendations. Is it the inference from these developments
that the Chinery Hesse recommendations would never be
implemented?”
“What hypocrisy and double standards are at work? one cannot
help but suspect that there is an orchestrated campaign to
vilify and persecute former President Kufuor,” Mr
Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said.
“We call on President John Evans Atta Mills to quickly get a
handle on these matters and restore sanity into this unseemly
situation and make a bold declaration on the use of the office
accommodation by former President Kufuor and the immediate
replacement of the three retrieved BMW cars with vehicles of the
same standard,” he added.
GNA
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