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General news for Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Source: 3 News
2020-09-29
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has had a credible performance in office as president of Ghana, said a former MP from the New Patriotic Party (PNP) from the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa constituency PC Appiah Ofori.
He described the president’s performance as “so far so good” while speaking in an interview with TV3’s Johnnie Hughes on Monday, September 28.
He noted that the implementation of the flagship program, the free upper secondary school “is a game changer” in transforming people’s lives.
The anti-corruption activist further noted that the establishment of the Special Prosecutor’s office was a good move for Akufo-Addo.
He said: “The intention is good, but the implementation is what a lot of people should have been prosecuted for from the NDC days to the current government.
PC Appiah Ofori rose to prominence in the political arena in Ghana after constantly bringing corruption allegations against the John Agyekum Kufuor administration after the PNP lost the 2008 elections.
In 2009, he revealed in his testimony before an inter-ministerial committee charged with reviewing the sale of Ghana Telecom, that all NPP MPs who voted for the sale each received $ 5,000.
He indicated that the current president has left him after helping him win the elections.
He said: “I defended Akufo-Addo and took him in from 2007 until he assumed the presidency in 2016. I am not happy with my abandonment. I’m not happy about the way Akufo-Addo doesn’t know me again.
“Either you have blocked my line or you have changed your line. If I call it, it won’t go [through]. I personally asked Akufo-Addo to want me to be sent to the board if the [Office of] Special prosecutor for me to become the investigator but there is no response from him.
“I wrote the letter as soon as the Special Prosecutor was appointed. I just wanted to go there to investigate all these reports from the Auditor General. Some of the Auditor General’s reports are not complete enough. “
Furthermore, he revealed that he regrets not having worked in the administration of Mr. John Mahama after an offer to that effect was made.
“John Mahama himself called me and said he wanted me to play a role in his administration and I told him that if he got involved in corruption himself, I would not hesitate to report it.
“He told me that’s why he wanted me to come and be a checkpoint for him and his ministers, but I didn’t take the position because if I joined the NDC administration, it would mean that I had left NPP and left Akufo. -Add. So I told him that I would not take office, but that any corrupt practices that take place in his administration will come to my attention, I will draw his attention to it. “
When asked if he regrets not having assumed that position, he said: “As a nation, as a country for the best of Ghana, I think that if I had placed Ghana’s interests above the party and reached that position, I think that there would be for all those involved in acts of corruption to be prosecuted. For that, I have repented. “
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