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Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Unit at the Presidency, Dr. Tony Aidoo, says he is deeply disappointed in the Presidential candidate of the Progressive Peoples� Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom for accusing the NDC government of corruption. He has also pooh-poohed Dr Nduom�s challenge to political party leaders to declare their assets. The PPP flagbearer, in an interview with The Ghanaian Journal re-stated his intention to stand by his promise on the four personal points � ask the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide him with certified true copies of his income tax returns; permit the Auditor-General to provide him with certified true copies of his assets report that he filed as a Minister of State and Member of Parliament; submit himself to a comprehensive medical examination at a health facility approved by the Ministry of Health and publish his party�s sources of funds before filing nominations papers to officially become a presidential candidate for Election 2012. He hopes that other presidential candidate would also make a firm commitment to these principles of incorruptible leadership, and explained that they are pre-conditions that will prove two points to the electorate. That is, corruption will be eradicated and the presidential candidates� readiness to fight corruption without any reservation. But speaking as a panelist on Radio Gold�s Alhaji and Alhaji programme, Dr. Tony Aidoo stated that the PPP flagbearer has no moral grounds to talk about other Presidential Candidates publishing their tax returns when he (Papa Kwesi Nduom), once falsely paraded himself as an American Business Man and was engaged in a level of infraction as indicated in a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) report. �There are evidences of money Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom received for contracts he failed to execute,� Dr. Tony Aidoo alleged. He also accused Dr. Nduom for conniving with Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobbey, former Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority (VRA), to defraud Ghanaians in the purchase of the strategic reserve plant that was meant to ease the energy crisis in the country which proved to be a white elephant. Singing a popular folktale song, he asked: �Who the hell is Papa Kwesi Nduom to talk about corruption? Some few years ago, Papa Kwesi Nduom worked at the State Enterprise Corporation and conducted himself in such a manner that some concrete evidence of infractions were brought against him under an SFO investigations: because nothing was done to Papa Kwesi Nduom, today he has grown wings; he is talking about other presidential candidates publishing their tax returns and so on? Like butter won�t melt in his mouth�� �Today, this man wants to be President of this country�� he said curtly.