About Sports
Minister's abrupt leave of absence
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot
Accra, June7, Ghanadot - President
Evans Atta Mills has directed Youth and Sports Minister
Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak to proceed on leave to give
way for investigations into allegations of financial
malfeasance made against him by the accountant at the
ministry, Mr Adim Odoom.
According to a statement signed by Mr J. K. Bebaako Mensah,
Secretary to the President, and issued in Accra yesterday,
"In order to ensure fairness in dealing with the matter, the
President has directed that the National Security Co-ordinator
should carry out an investigation into the allegations."
The directive asked Alhaji Mubarak to hand over the
operations of the ministry to his deputy, Nii Nortey Dua,
who will act in his absence until he is proven innocent of
the allegations.
Meanwhile, the National Security Council Secretariat has
taken over the investigations of the allegations of
financial malfeasance leveled against the Youth and Sports
Minister Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak.
It is to determine whether or not the said allegations were
a frame-up.
The Principal Accountant of the ministry, Mr. Adim Odoom, is
said to have made serious allegations of financial and
administrative indiscretion against the minister, who has,
this far, insisted on his innocence and claimed that the
whole game was a design by his
detractors to get him out.
Following this development, the National Security
Secretariat has asked Mr. Odoom to provide all documents
covering the purported payments he alleged the minister
received.
In his reaction, the Youth and Sports Minister, Alhaji
Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak speaking on Joy FM this morning
said he was confident he would
be exonerated after investigations into allegations of
financial malfeasance against him.
He insisted the allegations
against him were fabricated,
exaggerated and aimed at doing him in, adding that "almost
everything in there is a big lie, you can see categorically
that some group of persons are just out for me."
Touching on issues of pampers and baby oil, he denied ever
seeing the claims but would not
explain further.
On the specific issues of claims of GH¢10,000 for landing
charges for the CHAN tournament in Ivory Coast, he said
there could be “momentary lapses in judgement.”
Alhaji Mubarak thanked the president for the opportunity to
explain himself and for launching an investigation into the
allegations.
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