Some candidates who are aspiring to enter parliament on the ticket of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 general elections are using state vehicles for their campaigns.
Daily Guide yesterday captured a Nissan X-Trail four-wheel drive with registration number GV 1757 X, displaying campaign posters of Halidu Haruna, who is contesting in the Ablekuma Central primary of the party.
The same vehicle has campaign stickers of Alhaji Ibrahim Dori, who is contesting Environment and Science Minister, Mahama Ayariga, in the Bawku Central primary. Interestingly, the vehicle did not have a green background number plate as it should, making the claim by government that all (government) vehicles had been re-registered untrue.
That task was given to Vincent Senam Kuagbenu, former executive director of the National Service Scheme. He was assigned responsibility in the office of the president to coordinate the rationalization and re-registration of government vehicles in November 2013 in order to prevent misuse of state vehicles.
The rationalization and re-registration of state vehicles were announced in the State of the Nation Address by President John Dramani Mahama in February 2013.
Those NDC aspirants who are not using state vehicles are also displaying opulence in their campaigns. For instance, Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo, has branded an earth-moving Humvee vehicle, popularly called Hummer, for his campaign in Kpone Katamanso.
Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) boss, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, is also using a fleet of vehicles, including a Toyota Tundra, for his Ablekuma South ambition of representing the people there in parliament.
There are reports in the regions of NDC aspirants using state vehicles and other facilities for their campaign in flagrant disregard of the law.
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