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A member of the NDC communications team, Alhaji Halidu Haruna has dared the ruling government to tell Ghanaians who the auctioneer was if they actually went through the auctioneering processes before selling seventy-five of the Hyundai Galloper vehicles left to rot at the Institute of Local Government Studies some 18 years ago.

According to him, it is never true that there was no written contract agreement backing the purchase of the Gallopers as the current government claim.

He says it is rather a planned process that members of the ruling government met at the office of the presidency to agree on to their own benefit.

In an interview on UTV’s 'Adekye Nsroma' newspaper discussion segment, the aspiring parliamentary candidate for the Ablekuma Central constituency noted that government has not been fair to citizens in its processes of auctioning the Hyundai Gallopers.

The abandoned vehicles procured by the government of Ghana since 2001 have been finally auctioned.

According to the Ministry of Finance, seventy-five of the Hyundai Galloper vehicles have been sold off.

The vehicles have been abandoned at the Institute of Local Government Studies at Madina in Accra since 2001.

The Hyundai Galloper vehicles were expected to be distributed to the various Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies but the then John Agyekum Kufuor administration which came into office after the 2000 election failed to do so citing absence of a written contract in the purchase of the vehicles.

Commenting on its auctioning last year, the Deputy Minister of Finance, Kwaku Kwarteng said the government has resolved the legal challenges around the vehicles and it is ready to dispose it off.

Listen to the full interview with Alhaji Halidu Haruna below: