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Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Policy
Source: 3 News
2020-09-30
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
Former New Patriotic Party (PNP) MP for the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa constituency, PC Appiah Ofori, has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left him after helping him win the 2016 presidential election .
He said he has tried to reach the president by phone on several occasions, but the calls were never made.
The anti-corruption activist told TV3 on Monday, September 28, that he wrote to President Akufo-Addo begging him to appoint him to the board of directors of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, however, the president did not respond to his letter.
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 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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