The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) must go after businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome and reclaim the GHS51 million the highest court of the land has ruled he fraudulently got from the state as judgement debt, rather than “harassing” flag bearers of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and the All People’s Congress (APC), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom and Mr Hassan Ayariga, respectively, about the source of funding for their campaigns, PPP Policy Advisor Kofi Asamoah-Siaw has said.
“Look, this EOCO people should do serious things. Woyome has taken our money and he’s gone away with it, you are not going to [chase after him] and you come to follow up [where Dr Nduom got his funding from]. …When did EOCO wake up for them to come and ask of sources for campaign funding? Are they in Ghana all this while? So, if I were the Director General [of EOCO], I won’t allow myself to be used to go and attack political opponents and harass them like that,” Mr Asamoah-Siaw told Prince Minkah on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Monday, 24 October.
EOCO, in a letter to the two disqualified presidential nominees, demanded the source of the PPP’s GHS1, 700,000 paid to the Electoral Commission as filing fees for its presidential and parliamentary candidates. EOCO also wrote to Mr Ayariga to demand the source of $6 million which he said he had spent on his campaign vehicles for the December 2016 elections.
Responding to the letter, Mr Asamoah-Siaw accused EOCO and its boss of selectively applying the law. “The EOCO director has he never been in this country before when the PPP was asking that the EC had the responsibility to find out where political parties get their funding from? Where was he to come and write letters asking questions? The money came from the PPP. What is his problem? And the PPP are made up of human beings, some of whom have the money to pay that. What is he saying? That Dr Nduom doesn’t have that kind of money to pay the filing fee? What is GHS1.7million? So this joke should not be played on Ghanaians at all,” he noted.
“Why didn’t they call NPP people? The money we paid for our parliamentary candidates was GHS1.7million. The NPP paid GHS2.8million for their presidential candidate and parliamentary candidates. The NDC paid GHS2.8 million for all their 275 parliamentary candidates and their presidential candidate. Hasn’t EOCO heard that that GHS2.8 million is more than GHS1.7m? So where is the selective application [of the law] coming from?
“In any case, are they the people supposed to investigate the source of campaign funding? It is the Electoral Commission, so, why EOCO? Why this harassment? If President Mahama knows he’s lost the election, he should leave quickly and go. … All these kangaroo activities and deliberate harassment and intimidation and so [must stop]. Look, we are not going to keep quiet. Dr Nduom is a multibillion dollar businessman; he has a bank, in fact not only in Ghana, [but] in the US, in Liberia, in Togo, Ivory Coast that are coming up, so why is this thing coming up all of a sudden?
“These EOCO people, I don’t understand them. …You see, they shouldn’t make themselves a laughing stock. The institution of EOCO is for the state, it’s not for NDC or President Mahama. Why? …Why is the EOCO Director General becoming a laughing stock? Nobody can force us to belong to a one-party state. …If they (NDC) want to stay in power forever, they should do the good things and the people of Ghana will vote for them. If they see defeat staring them in the face, what is this harassment tactics that they are deploying? If EOCO is minded to investigate sources of campaign funding, where did the NDC also get their GHS2.8m from? Where did NPP also get their GHS2.8m from? Why are you coming to ask the PPP and Ayariga and the rest? Why not NDC and President Mahama; why not Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP? This selective thing makes your organisation lose the confidence that the public must have in you to do a better job. This EOCO is for Ghana, not for NDC or President Mahama or anybody. … Dr Nduom can pay this money twice, five times, 100 times…”
Source: Classfmonline
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EOCO boss is not only ***barred word*** but also thinks slowly compared to persons of the same class. what is the basis of inviting Indoom rather than Mahama who has syncronised the squandering of our funds in a very unlawful way. what about Smartys? Eoco please wake up and be smart.
What is the peace council doing to stem the tide of explosion staring the country. The ruling goveernment is marshalling resources; including state-owned institution to bulldoze their way through. It is clearly written on the walls that the elections shall be riged in favour of the NDC.
ppp i like your tough talk. that is exactly what this i-d-i-otic organization called EOCO needs to hear
Well said General Kofi. EOCO has no authority to summon Dr Nduom , ADr Ayariga and any other Presidential aspirants to prove their source of funding. No one can take us back into the pre-Independence days or Post-Independence One Party State days. NDC went on Accounting to the People Tour. Where did they get the funding?. Why did EOCO not ask President Mahama?. Is the EOCO organisation a necessary one that Ghana cannot do without?. Surely someone somewhere is witch-hunting against a credible NDUOM but we must be very accommodating of every Presidential Aspirant and of course show them RESPECT because we never know who will be our next Head of State!!
Sincerely speaking, I say the EC wants to avoid a run-off especially because of the failed November 7 proposed election date. The run-off will be too close to the 7th January. They want a one-touch for any of the two parties. They fear Nduom will spoil this chance, hence their attempt to thwart his bid through whatever means. May I sincerely suggest to followers of PPP that in the unlikely event that the court case doesn't go in his favour, we should all rally behind the CPP's candidate and vote for PPP's parliamentary candidates. Please think about it.
Obviously some mysterious hands cannot accept defeat
Have they (EOCO) seen the display of opulence by the NDC? Displaying bundles of cedis on tables with our poor unsuspecting brothers and sisters queuing to be served? Have they asked NDC the source of the money they s.h.a.m.e.lessly share? Is it selective justice or selective injustice, EOCO?
Thank you, give it to them. But focus on the problem od JDM/Asiedu Nketia corruption, not on NPP/NAAD who are part of the solution we seek. Next time grow up. As for EOCO the least said about them the better: a state institution filled with viiindictive and corruuupt minded NDC apparachicks and paid with our taxes!!!
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