Audio Attachment:Listen to Kwesi Pratt 'kokrokoo' |
Eugene Arhin, Director of the Communications at the Presidency, informed Ghanaians earlier this week that over Two Hundred (200) vehicles are nowhere to be found among the fleet of cars at the Presidency.
The vehicles were given to the officials of the past NDC government to use and to return after exiting office.
But in a statement on Thursday, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Johnny Osei Kofi, said Mr. Arhin’s claims were “false, baseless and without merit”, adding that they represented a continuation of the “distortions and bad faith that have characterized the conduct of the NPP side of the Transition team.”
The statement also explained that, “as part of the transition process, both the Assets and Logistics Committee on the NPP side were given a detailed list of all vehicles in the pool at the Presidency. More importantly, a total of 641 vehicles were listed and properly accounted for. This was duly captured in the handing over notes.”
Speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Ag. Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, Nana Boakye stated that the "cars that are there as I talk now are 173. In fact, the Ford Expedition is not part . . . That car is not part of the flet of vehicles . . . 173 cars, the registration numbers are there. This is a list of cars that comes from Jubilee House. The car’s number, the vehicle’s description, chassis number, and the leader in Jubilee House who’s been given for use and any other thing whether it’s bullet proof or not bullet proof are all there. These are serviceable. Serviceable vehicles at the Flagstaff House are 173 . . . Even the Ford Expedition that was given as a gift to the President (John Mahama) and he said that its been added to the fleet of vehicles at the presidency (Ford Expedition vehicle presented to former President John Dramani Mahama as gift by Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe)...and that it is for the government and has been registered, and so it’s part of the State cars. It is not part of the vehicles. It’s not there. So, somebody should come and show us where the vehicles are."
But in a quick riposte, the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt has found the revelations shocking because to him, the NPP government should be able to account for the missing vehicles.
According to him, if the Nana Addo led government claims that over 200 cars are missing from the Flagstaff House, they should disclose the list of the missing vehicles with the chassis numbers and any vital information that will assist i investigations.
Mr. Pratt doubted the government's disclosure by alluding to the list of 641 vehicles that the former Deputy Chief of Staff, Johnny Osei Kofi put out on Thursday and claimed there is no way 208 vehicles could be said to have gone missing.
To him, if the vehicles that were at the Flagstaff House were 641, then it means over 400 cars were taken by officials of the previous government.
“How come you say that something of yours is missing but you don’t know that particular thing? Is that not strange? That you claim you’ve lost something but you don’t know exactly what’s missing because the first thing in determining that something is missing is you know what’s missing," he said.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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IT SHOCK ME PAPA N I DON,T UNDERSTAND HOW A COUNTRY CAN GO THROUHT THESE.GOD HELP US.
This is just simple. Send the taskforce to Mahama and his brothers' homes, search for the cars and move them to the jubilee house. i AM 100% CONVINCED that Mahama is hiding most of the vehicles in his house or know the whereabout of most of the vehicles. That man is very gr.eedy and sel.fish and so are his brothers. The vehicles at the presidency are tooooo many. Most of them should be sold and the monies used to buy ambulances for the clinics and hospitals. The saloon cars should be given to hospitals as emergency paramedic fleet as is done in UK. In UK no ministry has government vehicles. Either you use your own vehicle or the ministry will hire vehicles for you to complete a set task and then resume to your normal duty without allocation of any vehicle.
Simple answer to Mr Pratt: Your predecessor leaves you with a signed document of 10 cars. You've seen the document signed, containing a list of 10 cars. You still have not seen the cars physically yet. Now you go to the garage, or car park to do a headcount, your list in your hand. If you now count only 6 cars, you surely can know that 4 of your 10 cars are missing. Yes, you don't know the cars but your signed documents are enough basis. Now imagine the complexity of headcounting if your list is not 10, but 600 plus cars. Kwesi, do you now understand? Senior journalist indeed!
Ni3 aka naaa ni
This man still talking ?
I am surprised that Ghanaian media are still in campaign mood defending every move of npp. All of a sudden, it is okay to despatch military platoons after individuals suspected to be in possession of state vehicles and ayikwey otoo finds nothing wrong with this. By the time Ghanaians wake up it will be too late. As for the cereal contributors on this panel, I don't want to say anything about them because most of them do not own cars and speak only out of jealousy. I am, however, surprised that the cleggy is no longer interested. The vociferous men of God have all of a sudden gone quiet. God is watching
Where is Mahama's Ford expedition. That alone shows that The NPP are being truthful
Sensible question for reasonable people to answer. Pls provide the list of the missing cars. We 're tired of ur baseless propaganda. Ur days are numbered !!
He knows everything!! Nothing from the NPP is right to him. Everyone knows you no so leave us all alone.
Your V8 is also a state car... Hand it over voluntarily else we will come for it.... This Pratt guy is an NDC journalist.