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Press Release
AFAG
August 1, 2013
ARREST HON ABUGA PELE, CLEMENT KOFI HUMADO
1st August, 2013
As a nation, we are at a point where government should no longer
protect or shield corrupt and negligent government officials.
GYEEDA is now in a mess as a result of the negligence and
duplicity of managers of the programme. The government cannot
wash away the duplicity and negligent of high ranking NDC party
members in the persons of Hon Abuga Pele and Hon Clement Kofi
Humado, leading to the loss of nearly GH200,000,000.00 by the
state with delays and the constitution of the PV Obeng
committee.
AFAG wishes to put on record that, the PV Obeng committee is a
waste of resources and a diversionary tactic to distract the
nation. AFAG advises the government to restrict the PV Obeng
Committee to advising it on the restructuring of GYEEDA and turn
over the criminal aspects of the report citing Abuga Pele, Kofi
Humado, some service providers and other persons, to the Police
CID and the Attorney General’s office.
Fellow Ghanaians, it makes no sense for the government to
appoint a new committee to make recommendations to the President
when the Ministerial Committee has already made cogent
recommendations to the same President with enough grounds for
the arrest of key NDC party stalwarts.
Mr. President, there is no midway, is either you stand by
Ghanaians or act against us for this vicious cycle of corruption
to continue over and over again. You must act and the time is
now to move step-by-step. In this light, the first persons to be
dealt with are the Hon Abuga Pele and Clement Kofi Humado. In
both cases and on numerous occasions as cited and proven by the
Ministerial Committee, they acted in contravention of the Public
Procurement Act of 2003 (Act 663). Their negligence which has
led to the loss of millions of Ghana Cedi is critically frowned
upon by the Financial Administration Act of 2003 (Act 654). In
one particular bizarre circumstance, concerning a service
provider (SP) named Retired Mines Workers Foundation, the report
states and we quote:
‘The SP has been paid GHS 392,700 although there was/is no
contract between the SP and GYEEDA/MOYS’. This is indeed
shameful. We cannot do this to ourselves as a nation. Does the
Woyome scandal rings a bell here?
AFAG is therefore calling upon the government of President John
Mahama to cause the immediate arrest and prosecution Hon Abuga
Pele, and Hon Clement Kofi Humado and all state officials who
have led this program to
Additionally, we call upon the government to make a copy of the
report to the following companies for them to respond to all the
allegations leveled against them for an official response to end
all speculations and rumor mongering Ghana deserves better. Mr.
President, arrest Abuga Pele and Clement Kofi Humado now!!
Signed
Arnold Boateng
Henry Asante
Abu Ramadan
Davis Opoku Ansah
Hon. James Apietu Ankrah
Dr. Afriyie |
