NPP wins by-election - in Bimbilla Constituency
Attorney-General
receives more flak
Another Nigeria-Ghana deal goes sour
Customs Service to move to the markets for uncustomed goods
Tsatsu’s wife writes to Agenda
Tony Aidoo prepared to kill or die
Bimbilla (Northern Region) 15 March 2002 - Mr Dominic Aduna Bingab Nitiwul yesterday won the Bimbilla by election on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He polled 14,380 votes as against 9,091 by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate Mr Mohammed Ibn Abass. The Returning Officer, Mr I.K. Amponsah, who declared the results late last night, said Ibn Aziz Abass of the DPP had 154 votes, Andrew Nogma of the PNC polled 605, Mr Abdulai Yussif of the GCPP had 144 while the Independent Candidate, Iddi Aziz Iddisah, had 289.
The seat became vacant following the elevation of Mohammed Ibn Chambas as Executive Secretary of ECOWAS. Earlier in the day, a large number of voters turned out to cast their votes, reports Zakaria Alhassan. By 7 am, there were long queues of voters at almost all the 103 polling stations. For example, by 8.15 am, about 80 people had cast their votes at the Gangu-Yilli polling station, where 300 voters were on the electoral roll.
At the Bimbilla “A” polling station, about 100 out of 663 voters had exercised their franchise by 8.30 am. At the Traditional Council “A” and “B” polling stations, 358 people out of the estimated number of 1,485 voters had cast their votes by 9.50 am, while at the L/A Primary School polling station where the Regent of Bimbilla, Vo-Na Abarika Attah, voted at 8 am, 70 voters out of 643 had cast their votes.
As of 1.00 pm, no major incident had been recorded, as the electorate exercised their franchise in a very peaceful manner, with polling agents and security personnel monitoring proceedings. Confusion however, erupted when some NPP youth, led by someone known only as Habib, allegedly attempted to prevent some voters they suspected to have cast their votes, earlier at Bimbilla from voting at the Kpaturi polling station.
However, the people insisted on voting, since according to them, they never voted at Bimbilla, as Habib and his colleagues had alleged. An argument then ensued between the NPP and the NDC group during which they hurled stones at each other. In the process, one Andani was hit on the back of his head with a stick. But for the timely intervention of the security personnel there would have been more casualties. No arrest was made.
Meanwhile, calm has been restored and the people who were prevented from voting were later allowed to vote. The District Security council has held a meeting with all political leaders to discuss the problem. The presence of the 241 police personnel under the command of Superintendent Mohammed Adams and a detachment of the military have helped to avert any major disturbance. “So far, everything has been peaceful, we have not encountered any major security threat at the polling stations,” Superintendent Adams said.
On the issue of voter transfer, the District Electoral Officer, Mr Francis Worlanyo, explained that during by-elections, voters are not allowed to transfer their votes. He expressed concern over reported cases of some party functionaries openly giving money to the electorate to vote for their candidate and vehicles, which have party symbols posted on them. While voting was going on, party vehicles were seen traversing the length and breadth of the constituency, monitoring proceedings at the various polling stations.
Among the large number of party functionaries in the constituency, were the Presidential candidate of the Great Consolidated People’s Party (GCPP), Mr Dan Lartey, Dr Edward Mahama of the PNC, the General Secretary of the NPP and NDC, Mr Dan Botwe and Alhaji Huudu Yahaya, respectively. Also present were former and sitting ministers of state, members of parliament and district chief executives. - Daily Graphic
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Bimbilla
(Northern Region) 15 March 2002 - Politically motivated ethnic clashes erupted
at Thursday’s polls between the Konkombas and the Nanumbas in the Konkomba-dominated
suburb of Kpaturi and at the Bimbilla Police Station, resulting in casualties
and injuries.
Among the
casualties were the New Patriotic Party (NPP) General Secretary, Mr Dan Botwe,
who was heckled and manhandled by angry mob and the Deputy Local Government
Minister, Hajia Alima Mahama, whose car was pelted with stones. The injured
included mothers carrying their babies at their backs, with their other
children by their sides.
For one
full hour, voting at the Kpaturi polling station came to a standstill, as the
Nanumbas fled the scene in a pick-up, leaving ballot papers and other voting
materials at the mercy of the Konkombas. All these went on right under the
noses of Hajia Alima Mahama and the PNC National vice-Chairman, Mr Baah-Ntim,
who did little to control the situation.
Apparently
out of fury, the Nanumbas retaliated Hajia Mahama’s indifference by pelting
stones at her vehicle and they would have completely smashed it, had it not
been her smart driver who quickly sped off. The only policeman present at the
scene, Constable Kenneth Hoeyi, had to leave in the vehicle of the PNC National
vice-Chairman to call for re-enforcement. A re-enforcement comprising police,
military and the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) personnel finally
arrived for voting to resume.
It all
started when some Nanumbas, believed to be NDC followers as their candidate,
Mohammed Ibn Abass, is a Nanumba, went to the town of Kpaturi to cast their
votes. As was learnt, the Nanumbas registered as voters at Kpaturi and had been
living there before their war with the Konkombas in 1994 displaced them.
So they had
arrived from Bimbilla, where they currently live, to vote at Kpaturi. Against
this background, the NPP polling agent present, who is a Konkomba, refused to
allow them to vote and this resulted in the clash that saw the Nanumbas fleeing
with a warning to revenge.
In the
other skirmish, the hardworking General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party
(NPP) was heckled by angry voters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He
was saved by a combined team of police and military personnel. Botwe was at the
police station to defuse tension, after factions who were involved in an
earlier political clatter, again engaged each other in a fight at the Bimbilla
police station.
Just as
Botwe was about to enter the premises of the police station, a youth stoned his
vehicle. He jumped out of it in an attempt to go and identify the one who had
stoned his vehicle, but unfortunately for him he was pushed, held by the neck
and heckled by unidentified young men. It took a combined team of police and
military personnel to free him from the hands of his opponents, who blamed the
police for taking side with the ruling party. – The Ghanaian Chronicle.
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Takoradi
(Western Region) 15 March 2002 - A cross-section of people, including some
legal experts, interviewed in Takoradi last Tuesday in connection with the
ongoing legal battle between the Attorney-General (A-G) and Mr Tsatsu Tsikata,
the former Chief Executive of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), have
called on President Kufuor to either sack Nana Akufo-Addo or force him and the
Chief Justice to resign honourably.
According
to them, they are demanding the resignation of the two government officials
because, as they put it, they have ridiculed the NPP government judging from
the way they went about the Tsatsu case at both the Supreme Court and the High
Court, which has now made Tsatsu a national hero.
One of the
interviewees, Mr Asamoah, a trader at the Takoradi central market told
Chronicle during the interview that Nana Akufo-Addo has been and would always
be his idol but added that he is disappointed about the way Nana allowed Tsatsu
to dribble past him through legal technicalities to score such a major
political goal against the government. He contended that after Nana had lost
the first battle against Tsatsu at the Supreme Court, he should have waited for
the judges to give reasons behind their decision that the Fast Track High Court
is unconstitutional before sending the man to another court to face trial.
According
to Asamoah, a staunch supporter of the NPP, if the A-G had exercised patience
instead of rushing Tsatsu to another court, he would have detected the
elementary mistake that he made which the accused exploited to his advantage.
Nana
Appiah-Kubi, a businessman, on his part told Chronicle that the A-G as a
respected legal luminary should have sat down to weigh the pros and cons of the
Supreme Court ruling after the judges had given their reason before deciding on
what charge to prefer against Tsatsu at the High Court. He said the blunder
that occurred at the High Court came to him as no surprise because the A-G did
not take his time to study the situation before rushing the accused to another
court.
Some of the
legal experts who spoke to Chronicle on condition of anonymity also said though
Tsatsu made a mistake by agreeing to guarantee a loan to another company
without the knowledge of the GNPC board, it does not call for his prosecution
since the A-G still has the chance of suing the said company to recover the
money or properties of the company.
The A-G can
also rope in Tsatsu in the cause of the suit or use the normal administrative
way to punish him, one of them said, adding that even after taking the accused
to court, the A-G should have sat down with his subordinates to thoroughly
study the charge sheet to ascertain whether legal technicalities were hiding
somewhere.
The legal
experts also condemned the press conference called by the A-G immediately after
the Supreme Court ruling where he disclosed that Tsatsu was going to be put
before another court the following day at a time when the judges had not made
known to the public the reasons why the ruled that the Fast Track High Court is
unconstitutional.
According
to them, it is the A-G who is supposed to advise the government on legal
matters, but for him to wait for the whole President of the Republic to give an
order that all prosecutions against Tsatsu should cease till the Supreme Court
gives its reasons is, to them, a serious indictment, which calls for the
immediate resignation of the A-G.
On the part
of the Chief Justice, they said he must also resign because he should not have
empanelled all but one of the Supreme Court judges to sit on the Tsatsu case.
According to them, he should have empanelled seven and later add two, which in
this case, would include himself when one of the parties apply for a review.
According
to them, should the Chief Justice keep on doing this, it could mean government
would have to keep appointing new judges to the Supreme Court if a dissatisfied
party applies for a review, which to them is very bad. – The Ghanaian
Chronicle.
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Another Nigeria-Ghana deal goes sour
Accra
(Greater Accra) 15 March 2002 - Somewhere in 2001, President John Agyekum
Kufuor (JAK) is alleged to have told members of Parliament that to ease their
transportation problems and make them more mobile he was going to give them
Peugeot cars from Nigeria.
According
to “The Ghanaian Voice” investigations, Members of Parliament rejected outright
the preposition from the President. This gave rise to the $20,000 car fracas,
which saw the Majority and Minority emerging from a common front to fight for
their common interest. So far, the Ghanaian public has been left in the cold as
to what has happened to the $20,000 saga.
Then on
February 11, 2002, President JAK secured fifty 306 Peugeot cars to the Police
to step up their efforts to fight crime which has been on the ascendancy since
the NPP party came to power. Naturally, this presentation and the fact that
there are fifty more to come naturally escalated happiness and euphoria among
the ranks of the police who have been doing a good job with the Toyota Tundra
vehicles.
But then it
was not all kudos as the Minority in Parliament led by Chief strategist Doe
Adjaho, the MP for Avenor described the whole transaction as lacking
transparency and shrouded in secrecy. He questioned the source of the money and
the mode of acquisition of the vehicles and shouted foul and the heat was on.
The
government side tried desperately to justify the transaction but tried as they
did the explanation limped from one crisis to another. The Minister of
Information Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey said that the money was taken from the
Provisional Estimates approved in December 2001.
Then Hon
Doe Adjaho came back again and presented facts to the effect that only ¢820
million was approved for the Police service, which means, this could buy only
eight of the cars. Meanwhile, the Majority leadership had told the House
Committee of Parliament that President JAK had informed him that he has
arranged with President Obasanjo of Nigeria to supply Ghana’s Parliamentarians
with Peugeot.
Then walks
in Finance Minister Osafo Marfo when he was winding up debate on the
Government’s financial policy. He said that the government took the money for
the Peugeot cars from the General Government Service Vote.” The Ghanaian Voice
investigations have revealed that there is no provision made in the provisional
estimates approved in the 2001 budget for “General Government Services.” – The
Ghanaian Voice.
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Parliamentarians still waiting for $20,000 car loan
Accra
(Greater Accra) 15 March 2002 - Members of Parliament are still waiting to
receive the $20,000 car loan from government. While some claim the monies are
being processed, others said they are negotiating with banks for loans to buy
cars to facilitate their work. No Member of the House has received any payment
in respect of the controversial loan.
Majority
Chief Whip, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu explained that some MPs have been paying
¢1.2.million since August last year to various banks to attract car loans. The
packages have taken a long time and some MPs have almost given up asking for a
return of their savings.
Akua
Dansua, NDC MP for North Dayi supported the Majority Chief Whip by saying no MP
has been paid any amount. Naa Afieye Ashong, MP for Kpong-Katamanso; Emmanuel
Acheampong, MP for Gomoa East; Adu Yeboah NDC, MP for Agona East; and C.O.
Nyanor, MP for Upper Denkyira all denied knowledge of any payment of $20,000.
“Government
is supposed to provide us with transport but whether it will come in the form
of a loan or gift we do not know,” said Acheampong. He said there is no
Parliament in the world where the government does not provide vehicles to
facilitate the work of MPs.
The
Member for Effia Kwesimintim, Joe Baidoe Ansah, said a lot of Auto companies
are lobbying Parliament with nice packages for the supply of vehicles but so
far nothing has happened yet.
Public
Agenda Editor, Ebo Quansah said categorically in a ‘Breakfast Show’ of the
Ghana Television, that the controversial MP car loans have been paid, prompting
renewed public interest in the issue. Asked to comment on his television
utterance, Quansah said his information came through a member of the august
House. He apologised for the embarrassment he might have caused Members of the
Legislature.
When the
news first broke that Members of Parliament were to receive loans of $20,000 to
buy cars, there was public uproar forcing the government to put the programme
on hold - The Weekend Agenda.
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Accra
(Greater Accra) 15 March 2002 - Anti-smuggling activities of the Customs,
Exercise and Preventive Service (CEPS) have now moved into the markets of Accra
and the regional capitals. As such, sellers of certain types of imported goods
stand the chance of having their goods seized while they face prosecution.
Imported
goods affected are wax print and other textile materials, batteries, alcoholic
beverages, cigarettes, corned beef, hair products, detergents and
confectionery. At a news conference in Accra, Ms Annie Anipa, Acting Assistant
Commissioner (AC) in charge of Public Relations said that this was because the
smuggled goods, especially wax print, were a great worry to government and
CEPS. And to combat this, CEPS has launched the market anti-smuggling
activities.
The
acting AC said the CEPS exercise, which is ongoing, is in response to the
Minister of Finance’s call in the 2002 Budget Statement to combat smuggling at
the point of sale due to its harmful effects on the economy. Ms Anipa said the
exercise had become very necessary due to the fact that operations of the local
industries were grinding to a virtual halt with these items on the market. The
fact of the matter is that, when the right taxes and duties are paid on the
goods, the traders cannot sell them at any profit – The Ghanaian Times.
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Tsatsu’s wife writes to Agenda
Accra
(Greater Accra) 15 March 2002 – Kudjawu & Co, solicitors for the wife of
Tsatsu Tsikata has written to Public Agenda on the paper’s publication on her
supposed assets in the United States and the United Kingdom. Among others, the
rejoinder described as malicious, the story carried by the paper. The full text
is published hereby.
“We are
writing for and on behalf of our client Esther Cobbah. Our client’s attention
has been drawn to a publication, which appeared on the front page of the
Weekend Agenda Vol. 2, Number 7 of March 8, 2002, with the banner headline:
Luxury lifestyle of Tsatsu’s wife and pal”…Esther owns a mansion and has an
office in the US while Tsikata’s close friend drives three cars valued at
$180,000 and owns a $1.4 million home.
In the
said publication, you falsely and maliciously wrote, published and circulated
among other things the following with personal reference to our client. “As the
nation awaits the reasons the Supreme Court have assigned for granting the
relief sought by Tsatsu Tsikata, one-time Chief Executive of the Ghana National
Petroleum Corporation, which has consigned the Fast Track High Court in
oblivion, Public Agenda can reveal that Tsatsu’s newly wedded wife, Esther, and
personal aide Quincy Kwasi Sintim Aboagye, live in luxury in Texas, the
southern state in the United States of America, where US President George W.
Bush was governor until he made it to the White House.
Esther,
former wife of Baah Boakye, one of President Kufuor’s recently sworn in
Ambassadors, owns a mansion at 5539 Woodland Glade Drive. She also has a
private office block at 11111 Wilcrest Drive Houston, Texas while Sintim
Aboagye is proud owner of a $1.4 million executive mansion with his wife
Shirley, at 5203 Norborne Lane, Houston, TX77069.
According
to Public Agenda sources in the United States, Quincy recently moved from a
home between Belt 8 North and Ranking in Houston. Both Tsatsu’s wife, maiden
name (Esther Cobbah), former Head of Public Affairs of GNPC and Quincy flaunt
wealth openly…”
Your
writing and publication falsely and maliciously claim that Esther owns a
mansion and has an office in US and you accompanied your false stories with
pictures, no doubt, in an attempt to give more credibility to your claims. You
intended to and were understood to give the public the impression that our
client has a luxury lifestyle clearly beyond her lawful means, and that she
could only have acquired the properties you attribute to her corruptly by
associating herself with Tsatsu Tsikata.
The
insinuation of ill-gotten gain is obvious to everyone. You further claim that
she flaunt her alleged “wealth.” In an attempt to give further credibility to
your false hoods and to embellish your story, you showed a picture with the
caption “A house fit for a queen: Esther’s home in Houston.
Our
client neither has a house nor an office in Houston. The building that appeared
in the picture that you published whose address you gave as 11111 Wilcrest
Drive, Houston, Texas is owned by Chevron, an international oil company. Our
client only once worked in that building as the External Affairs Manager of
West African Gas Pipeline Project when that project was located in that
building.
Based on
this picture, for you to suggest that our client has an office in the US is the
height of dishonesty and malice. If you
Had not
been actuated by malice, it would have been very easy for you to ascertain the
ownership of that building before making the said false and malicious
publication.
We hardly
need to point out to you also that by the reason of such unjustifiable and
malicious publication, which was circulated widely in the print and electronic
media, our client have been injured in her character and reputation.
Having
regard to the seriousness of the false and malicious statements, their unwanton
publication and the wide circulation claimed by your paper, we have been instructed
to write to you as we now do to demand an unqualified apology and retraction of
the words so malicious and falsely written and published by you of our client
in the next edition of your newspaper which in any case should not be later
than 7 days from the date of this letter.
Our
client requires that apart from publishing such apology and retraction, not
later than the close of day on Sunday the 10th of March 2002, you
notify all the radio stations, which repeated your story of your retraction and
to require the radio to carry your retraction and apology prominently.
We regret
to say that unless you comply with our client’s request, as above, our client
has no other choice than to seek the appropriate legal remedy. The retraction
and apology, which must be prominently displayed on the front page of your
newspaper, must be in a form and manner agreed to by us before publication. We
look forward to hearing from you. - The Weekend Agenda. (The Agenda has however
promised to be back on the issue next week.)
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Condoms not antidote for HIV/AIDS
Swedru
(Central Region) 15 March 2002 - The General Superintendent of Assemblies of
God Church, the Reverend Dr Simon B. Asore, said on Sunday that the declared
stand of the Church on the HIV/AIDS pandemic was total abstinence from sex or
sticking to one’s partner, instead of dwelling on the use of condom.
He said the
Executive Council had made it clear that members should lead holy lives rather
than opting for condoms to protect them from the disease. Rev Asore, who was
commissioning a 200 million-cedi Church building at Agona Swedru, said the
disease was “spreading like wild fire” and urged Pastors and church leaders to
use the pulpit to sensitise their congregations about the dangers.
Some people
think because of condoms, they could easily have sex indiscriminately, he said,
adding, “condoms are not total guarantee for safety.” The General
Superintendent called on organisations and public-spirited people to support
the government to curb the spread of the disease, especially among the youth,
who are the future leaders of the country. He urged members not to form
associations within the Church for their parochial interest, but use them to
serve God and mankind.
Rev Charles
Arko-Nunoo, Pastor-in-charge, said the Swedru Central Assemblies had acquired
23 acres of land for the establishment of a school and had cultivated a 25-acre
oil palm plantation. He said the branch, which started with 30 members now has
over 400 members and has established three satellite branches in the town. –
The Ghana Palaver.
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Sekondi (Western Region) 15 March 2002 - The Sekondi Police have intensified their search for a 35-year-old fisherman who is on the run, after he had battered the head of his wife with a hammer, in an attempt to kill her. The fisherman, Amos Andoh, who took offence when his wife, Millicent Tawaih, 28, allegedly accused him of infidelity, hit her head with a hammer till she fell unconscious.
She is on admission at the Effia Nkwanta Hospital. Briefing the Graphic at Sekondi on Thursday, The District Police Commissioner, Superintendent Kwabena Akuoko Oduro, said Amos and Millicent have been married for a long time and have a child.
He said early this month, there was a misunderstanding between the two after Millicent had allegedly accused Amos of courting another woman. He said even though the problem was resolved the same day, Amos, who seemed not to be appeased, asked his wife to pack out of their matrimonial home.
Superintendent Oduro said soon after Amos had given the order, he left the house and returned at about 11.30 pm to find his wife and child asleep in the bedroom. He said Amos seemed to have been annoyed by their presence but he did not show it.
Superintendent Oduro said the following day, Amos again left the house early in the morning and returned late to find Millicent and their child asleep in the bedroom. He said Amos who was then armed with a hammer, and without any provocation, repeatedly hit the head of Millicent with the hammer until she fell unconscious. Amos then bolted. A report was later made to the police.
Superintendent Oduro expressed concern about the spate of domestic murders and suggested that counselling units should be set up in communities, organisations, and within groupings, to provide counselling services for couples. - Daily Graphic
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Accra (Greater Accra) 15 March 2002 - There is simmering tension between the VAT service and the Customs, Excise and Preventive (CEPS) over the latter’s collection of import VAT. This come in the wake of the announcement by government in this year’s budget on a decision to let revenue agencies keep three per cent of income collected by their organizations for the state.
According to a source at CEPS, although they have been in charge of the collection of the import VAT, the VAT Service has been clamouring for it to be added to their revenue collection ever since this year’s budget was read in Parliament. It said the call is very baffling since the tax is collected at source, at the ports and so wonders on what basis VAT wants the revenue to be transferred.
The source cautioned that if the wish of VAT is granted, the state stands in danger of losing billions of cedis worth of revenue as CEPS officers who are supposed to collect it would not go about their duties of assessing and collecting the tax with the same zeal and seriousness in the same way they did in the past.
It welcomed the decision of the government to let revenue collecting agencies retain three per cent of their collection, since it would serve as a motivating factor in the performance of their duties together with the equipment and resources it would provide.
Giving a background to the collection of the tax by CEPS, the source said it was charged with the duty of collecting it after the VAT Service and the Value Added Tax (VAT) were established and sales tax, which was then being collected by CEPS was abolished. It said in addition to their main work of collecting customs duty and preventing smuggled goods from entering or leaving the country, CEPS also acts as the first line of defence since it took over the duties of the erstwhile border guards in 1988.
The source stated that the workload given to CEPS is enormous whilst the work force of 3,000 is inadequate and therefore more revenue and resources need to be channelled into the service to recruit more staff and equip them appropriately. It called on the Minister of Finance to step in immediately and resolve the impasse if the government wishes to achieve its aim of maximising revenue generation in the country whilst protecting its territorial integrity.
However, when the VAT Service was contacted, the head of the Public Affairs Department, Mr Victor Ampah, said, “as far as we (VAT Service) are concerned there is no problem. The issue is being handled by the Revenue Agencies Board which is expected to come out soon with the modalities on how the 3 per cent retention should be allocated,” he added. - The Evening News.
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Kumas (Ashanti Region) 15 March 2002 - Tony Aidoo, the former NDC Deputy Minister of Defence, has described his action of threatening a driver of a motor vehicle with a gun at a petrol station as one of the reasons that his party was voted out of office. But, showing little repentance, he went on to warn that he is prepared to kill or be killed if anyone attempts to harass him.
Dr Aidoo, who gave this warning when he spoke to a local FM station, Kapital Radio, in Kumasi last Wednesday, accused the security agents for their failure to take any action when he was slapped while driving in Accra.
He, however, warned that anybody who would attempt to attack him again should be in for a shock of his life. “The first time it happened, no action was taken but if anyone tries to attack or slap me again, trust me, one of us will end up in the morgue,” a charged Dr Tony Aidoo told the radio station.
The Former Deputy of Defence condemned the attempt o arrest Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) at the Dunwell Church in Accra last Sunday and described it as “morally obnoxious.” When reminded that he also arrested and pulled a gun on a driver at a petrol filling station when he was a Deputy Minister, Dr Aidoo said, “This is some of the reasons that the electorate changed the NDC.”
Johnson Aseidu Nketia, MP for Wenchi West, lashed out at the NPP government for “double standards.” He added, “Someone like the MP for Wenchi East, Alhaji Moctar Bamba, lied o the Appointments Committee of Parliament. He does not deserve his present ministerial position.”
A caller to the programme, Abdullah Saeed, did not agree with the sentiments expressed by Dr Aidoo. He remarked, “What is more morally obnoxious than a President slapping his Vice? Where was Dr Aidoo when that incident happened?”
Majority of callers were also not amused that the two NDC personalities contributed by the telephone, thereby denying callers the opportunity to take them on their statements. They suggested to the host to endeavour to bring the top NDC men to the studio next time. – The Statement
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