Members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after the swearing-in of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the President of the country quickly drove away huge numbers of state vehicles that were parked at the seat of government, a former District Chief Executive Officer (DCE) in the Mahama administration has alleged.
According to George Opare-Addo, the Director of Operations at the Presidency, Lord Commey was the one who directed some members of the party’s security, Invincible Forces to drive away the vehicles.
“I say this on authority, on the 7th of January, (2017), after President Akufo-Addo was sworn in, Lord Commey distributed vehicles to the Invincible Forces which they drove out of the Flagstaff House…” he alleged.
Nii Ayikoi Otoo who was the Chairman of the Executive Assets Subcommittee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Transition Team said government has retrieved 67 vehicles with 234 still missing.
The government has accused the former administration of illegally appropriating state vehicles to its officials after the NDC lost power in the 2016 polls.
It claimed last February, the government could not trace 208 vehicles.
Government set up a taskforce with officials from the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Revenue Authority (Customs Division), the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), and persons from the Office of the President.
The Former Attorney-General under the Kufuor administration said the task force has successfully retrieved 67 government vehicles which were originally not listed by the outgone administration.
Going forward, Mr. Ayikoi Otoo hinted, the task force would liaise with DVLA to alert the police to effect the arrest of persons who would attempt to register the missing vehicles in their names.
Reacting to this on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen, the former DCE for Akwapim North said he is privy to the fact that Lord Commey ordered the Invincible Forces to drive away the vehicles.
This action, he said was ordered by Lord Commey immediately after Nana Addo was sworn in as President of the land.
“They should ask the Invincible Forces of the whereabouts of the missing cars because I know on the 7th of January, they distributed vehicles to them…,” he claimed.
He continued further that the CCTV camera at the Flagstaff House captured this action and hence challenged the presidency to come public with the footage from the presidency of 7th January to challenge him.
“I am challenging them to make available the footage from the Flagstaff House which would show the number of cars that were parked inside the yard and how many of the vehicles were driven from the yard,” he claimed further.
Opare-Addo further claimed that the government only threw into the public domain the issue of the missing state vehicles as a strategy to divert attention from the 110 ministerial appointments.
“I challenge the NPP and I dare them to bring the records…they should publish the records of the 67 people they claimed, they seized from…I insist that on the 7th of January, some cars were taken out of the flagstaff house…,” he maintained.
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