Peacefmonline.com is reliably informed that Former President John Dramani Mahama ordered all his appointees, including party executives, to return government vehicles in their possession to the state before leaving office.
The Ex-president, at a meeting with members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) directed that all state assets in the hands of any activist should be handed over to the present administration.
Deputy National Organizer of the opposition NDC, Joshua Akamba, disclosed this in an interview with NEAT FM morning show Ghana Montie.
He thus wondered why some individuals within the NDC are still holding onto state vehicles despite Mr Mahama's directive, and described their action as "shameful" and "seriously dishonest".
“The former president [John Mahama] held a meeting with everyone in the party and his government and told us to return state cars in our possession to the new government.”
“So I don’t know why one will still keep those cars for the state to chase them for it. Why do you have to keep state property? That is seriously dishonest on the side of those keeping state property. They should bow their heads down in shame,” he told host Kwesi Aboagye.
Joshua Akamba was emphatic that he never used any government vehicle when the NDC was in power.
The National Organiser of the opposition party, Kofi Adams, incidentally Akamba's immediate boss, is one person who stands accused of 'stealing' five vehicles belonging to the state.
The five vehicles; two Toyota V8 Land Cruisers with registration numbers GS 7451-12 and GN 7796-16 and three Nissan Hard Body pick-ups with registration numbers; GM 842-16, GM 823-16 and GM 846-16, were seized from his Golf City area house in Tema.
Kofi Adams, who was also the Campaign Coordinator for John Mahama in the run-up to the 2016 general elections, was said to be in Dubai when the house was visited by people said to be national security operatives to seize the cars.
However, a source at the Flagstaff House – where the vehicles were sent for safekeeping said the current users have indeed scrapped [tampered with] the chassis number under the windshield of the pickups and sealed the place with a metal – all in an attempt to change the ownership.
But Joshua Akamba questioned why people must allow the state to chase them for state cars.
“If you are not a government appointee, don’t drive state cars. That is my policy and principle,” he advised.
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oyiwa,steal.ers, changing chases numbers,so the plan of the NDC, is to milk Ghana dry, John Mahama himself is the commander in charge of the THIE.V.E.S, that is the reason why his why his orders were not adhere to,where did John Mahama gets all the 17 land cruisers which were packed in front of Stan Dogbes office.John Mahama has kept most of these cars for himself , and expects his appointees to return theirs, it doesnt work that way, you preach virtues ans practice vices , TWEAAAAA for the where. JOHN MAHAMA IS A TH., I., E..F.FINIIITO
IT'S BETTER FOR THE NDC MEMBERS TO RETURN ALL STATE PROPERTIES BEFORE THEY FOUND THEMSELVES AT NSAWAM PRISONS. DO NOT BE GREEDY.
MAHAMA WAS A BAD LEADER. HE HAD NO CONTROL OF HIS PARTY AS FAR AS GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP WERE CONCERNED. AS A LEADER YOU DO NOT JUST ORDER CARS TO BE RETURNED. YOU MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE STATE CARS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR. THE CARS DID NOT DRIVE BY THEMSELVES TO THOSE WHO GOT THEM. THEY WERE GIVEN TO THEM BY SOMEBODY OF A CERTAIN OFFICE AND THEY WERE RECORDED. THE PERSON AND THE OFFICE IN CHARGE OF THE DISTRIBUTION AND THE USAGE OF THE CARS MUST BE MADE TO COLLECT THEM TO BE HANDED OVER. THIS IS SHAMEFULL ABOUT MAHAMA'S ADMINISTRATION. GHANAIANS CONSIDERED HIS GOVERNMENT AS CORRUPTT AND AND INCOMPETENTT, BUT THEY ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING IN THE LEAST TO CHANGE THAT IMPRESSION.
The nature of the order alone shows why the JM deservingly lost the elections. How could he have instructed the users of the said vehicles to hand them over to the incoming government? But how did the users come to possess the vehicles in the first place? The said vehicles were assigned to them and so it was only administratively appropriate that they handed over the vehicles to those who assigned them out to them who in turn would have handed them over to the protocol officer or whoever of the incoming government. Asking the ***barred word*** to simply go hand the vehicles over to the incoming government was a recipe for disaster. It shows how the JM ran Sikaman.
what a shame, those people didn't have any respect for the ex-president. They were thinking of how to enrich themselves and that was what they did when they were in office. It is a very big disgrace
today this guy has spoken some sennse. i really respect you for this move Akamba!
I just can't fathom why individual who party functionaries and not government appointee will drive state cars. This country is sick to the bone. This can't happen in any serious country.
You see how ***barred word*** NDC are. Even on the orders of their president they are still hiding state assets and vehicle. What is w.rong with these NDC people at all?