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General News on Friday, January 25, 2019
Source: clbadfmonline.com
2019-01-25
Clement Apaak, Member of Parliament for Builsa South
Dr. Clement Apaak, former member of the Mahama administration, dared Professor Stephen Adei, chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), to drag out members of the former Mahama government to Office of the Special Prosecutor or the Office of the Economic Prosecutor and organized. Office Crimes (EOCO) if he has evidence that they were corrupted while on duty, as he constantly claims.
The legislator therefore asked the former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) to provide evidence in support of his requests and to pbad it on to relevant institutions such as the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), the Economic and Organized Crime Bureau (EOCO), the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service or the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), for further action.
Professor Adei recently told Clbad91.3FM that corruption under John Mahama's administration was very high, a situation that would have cost the country considerable progress in its development agenda.
He noted that Mr. Mahama had eroded all the gains of John Agyekum Kufuor's administration, including the prospects in the oil sector, following the discovery of oil in the Kufuor era.
In an interview, Professor Adei told Benjamin Akakpo during the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS): "Between 2008 and 2011, hopes have resumed. In 2007, oil was discovered and systematic progress was made, with some foundations being put in place.
"In 2011, the economy was growing at 14% a year and everyone thought that a new era in Ghana had arrived.
"Unfortunately," he added, "this hope has been totally destroyed and when His Excellency President John Mahama left office, we were almost in the ditch or in the doldrums.
"There was so much corruption, inflation, debt, growth had fallen to less than 4% and each indicator was down.
"I think this has been a pain for those of us who have witnessed our development. I thought that in 2011, for once, we would not go there, but we went back so badly.
"Then arrogance and impudence. I never saw myself in this deplorable state during the fourth republic. "
In response to Professor Adei, the deputy of Builsa South said in a statement issued on Friday, January 25, 2019: "My friends, tell Professor Adei that, if he has evidence establishing acts of corruption and their authors, when the The previous government was in office, it should file a complaint with the BNI, EOCO, the CID or, better still, the OSP.
Dr. Apaak stated that Professor Adei made all kinds of "unfounded" allegations against JM [John Mahama] and his appointees when our party was in power. I had supposed that I had been rewarded by NADAA [Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo] for defaming JM and his government, he would have put an end to his fictitious allegations, but no ".
Dr. Apaak said it should be emphasized that: "Professor Adei is now part of a PNP government in which the president himself eliminates alleged corrupt members of corruption. The government of which he is a member has appointed an unprecedented number of family members, friends, etc., to various positions in government and the public sector, the most nepotistic government in history. from Ghana ".
He continued, "Yet, it is the professor who accused the acting president, JM, of appointing one in four people from his region whom he had named. His past was totally false, but he claimed that this claim was based on research. I challenged him to share the results of the research with us all by putting them in the public domain. Guess what? He never did. That did not exist, a ghost, that was not true, he had no research to support his claims that one person named on JM out of four positions was from its origins. It could not be until the end of time, JM has never done such. "
Mr. Apaak further accused Professor Adei of having deliberately kept quiet about alleged corruption cases under the Akufo-Addo administration, while quickly proposing a gloomy picture of the previous government.
"Professor Adei seems to forget the alleged acts of corruption. There is no problem with the appointment of 111 ministers, 998 presidential staff, several directors general and heads of agencies. But why should Professor Adei be concerned about the rottenness of the NPP? He is no longer a citizen, but a government appointee, chairman of our National Development Planning Commission (NDPC). "
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