This rather mischievous but dastardly event oxygenated some party faithfuls, especially, the youth, to comb throughout the country in an effort to retrieve these stolen cars. That singular decision rocked a boat that should have been so impregnable to be shaken by a mere wind.
Avalanche of protestations greeted the decision by the minister responsible for security to return the vehicles sequestered from the residence of Kofi Adams. The agitations followed series of tepid efforts the Akufo-Addo administration had exhibited in retrieving property belonging to the state.
It is more than gruelling when reports of these stolen cars are being relayed to Ghanaians. It beats my wildest imagination the institutional framework which was invented by the outgone NDC government in their avaricious zeal to rob the country of its assets.
The fleet of vehicles at the presidency when John Mahama was in power seem to have vaporized into thin air. It is becoming increasingly an uphill mountain to climb trying to establish the locations of those vehicles. The sector charged with the ultimate responsibility of ensuring that these vehicles are returned should gird up their loins for a much tougher job.
A painstaking investigation I have made led me to the conclusion that the vehicles were auctioned to party functionaries at a song. Vehicles which should, ordinarily, have attracted high price tags were sold out to Mahama’s appointees at ludicrously incomprehensible prices.
Kofi Baah, the outgone DCE for Sene East district of the Brong Ahafo Region was a beneficiary of the largesse wickedly doled out to members of the NDC. A Landcruiser vehicle with registration number GR-616-14 was given to this man at ¢25000 at the tail end of Mahama’s administration. It was amongst the fleet of vehicles available to Lordina Mahama. The vehicle has to be impounded and an inquest launched to establish the facts behind its acquisition, and to also find out if it was needful to offload it in the first place. Photographs of the said vehicle have been provided to aid further investigations into the matter.
A finality of some sort must be brought to this whole concept of state vehicles being sold to party functionaries and government appointees! If this practice is nipped in the bud, this religious cycle of new governments crying over stolen vehicles would belong to a land so distant from us.
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By: P.K.Sarpong,
whispers from the corridors of THE THINKING PLACE.
