The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Engineers and Planners, Ibrahim Mahama is owed at least over GHc 24 million by the Ministry of Roads, Transport and Highways for work done on roads in the northern Ghana.
This is according to the Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George, who confirmed that Mr. Mahama had indeed been ordered to pay about GHC12 million to the Ghana Revenue Authority [GRA] by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).
Mr. George explained that the amount was for duties on equipment brought in to the country to execute the road project.
But Mr. Mahama, the brother of former President John Mahama, maintains that he only owes GHc 2 million, according to the Ningo Prampram MP, who spoke on Eyewitness News.
Mr. Mahama was contracted under the John Mahama government to execute various projects, including the clearing of a field to house the AMERI power plant and his alleged involvement in some cocoa road projects.
Mr. George explained that “There is an arrangemet with GRA. He [Ibrahim Mahama] brought in equipment for government work and after the import duty, an arrangement was made that the duties will be deducted from payment made for the job for which they were brought in for.”
“Government is owing more than twice what it is asking him to pay as complete sums, including interests,” he added.
“The government is owing the business man for work he has used the very equipment that has attracted the very liability he has to government. How do you expect him to pay if you are owing him? So government should do the honorable thing and pay him and the actually deduct whatever they think is due them from the source.”
Mr. George noted that the arrangement was that, when Mr. Mahama gets paid, the deductions will be made “because there was a time table that was agreed between him and the GRA for retiring this liability.”
EOCO on a fishing expedition
Despite suggestions that EOCO may have been intensely interrogating Mr. Mahama, Mr. George described the meetings with EOCO as “largely cordial.”
But EOCO may not totally be on top of issues as, in his view, “you can clearly tell that EOCO is on a fishing expedition. They are trying to find out a a lot that the don’t know about.”
“That is strange because as an investigative body, you would have expected that they have their facts and on the basis of their findings they will then be asking questions, but that is not what we are seeing. Very amorphous questions are being asked. The invitation was to answer questions with regard to issues of the GRA but today [Friday], he had questions about merchant bank and al kinds of so you really don’t know what EOCO is about,” Mr. George stated.
Source: citifmonline.com
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You can do what ever you want to do with the NDC people, but bear in mine that their time will come one day.
I am a teacher the government owes me 15 months salary paid me only 3 months,I import in a car and give ceps a dub cheque and clear my car if caught I will say the government owes me and that if the government pays me I will pay them.Do you think this will work for me a nobody.
It's clear as daylight who sponsored Sam George. Now I understand why Hon. E.T Mensah was so upset with the presidency. But come think of it? As a teacher I've not been paid for almost 2 years amount to over 20,000 Ghana cedis. Then I'm supposed to pay duty on my car to the tune of 10,000 cedis then I write a cheque for 10,000 instead of paying cash. And what's more? I have no 10,000 cedis in my account. How can that be? This rot which is a tip of the iceberg is a precursor to shady deals that have taken place in this country down the years. $tealers$
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Sam George PAAAA!!!!!! how could you go on TV and spit this ***barred word*** toxic raw seweage ; do you think KK Amoah and the other EOCO officers are ***barred word*** and do not know what they are doing ; YOU MUST BE JOKING !!!!!!!besides how could you claim there was some arrangement with the GRA to do some deductions on work done ; a load BULLL.......S; there was no such arragements with the GRA and if there was can this maggot ;liar ; thif NDC GREEDY B !!!!!produce such copy of the agreement between Ibrahim Mahama and GRA ; the fact is that Ibrahim Mahama used his brothers position to obtain contracts and mis-used the system to gain advatage ; which businessmen in Ghana has the privilage of signing dud cheques which is a kriminal offence in Ghana ; besides the government owing Ibrahim Mahama has nothing to do with paying custom duties at the port besides can you go to got and say because the government owes you you initiate to sign dud cheques to insulate yourself ; can anybody just import goods into the country and claim that just because the equipment is to be used for government contracts they can sign dud cheques ; SAM George please don't be an IDIOTIC NDC DONKEY FULL ; Sam George should also understand that investigative bodies do not investigate idividual by telling them what they know ; they allow you to them what you know about a kriminal offence and not what they know about a kriminal offence ; this allows them to build a prima facie case against you besides KK Amoah is a former ACP Police officer and a lawyer with a law firm and weel experienced in investigative matters ;It is an insult to say EOCO does not know what they are doing ; wait and see what will happen to Jon Mahama ; they have set him a trap and if he does not pay or pay will be charged with defrauding the state very soon ; Ibrahim Mahama is in BIG TROUBLE !!!!!!!.
But his brother was the president why not paying him?
This is an insult to our intelligence. He issued cheques that were returned and you explain that his inability to pay was because he is owed by government? Such crass ignorance and ***barred word*** is baffling when you jump to defend issues you are not properly versed in. Spare us this idiocy.