Pressure Group, Ghanaians Abroad Against Corruption (GAAC) has called on President John Evans Atta Mills to immediately step down as the leader of Ghana due to his incompetence and bad leadership style and hand over the baton to his Vice President John Dramani Mahama.
According to the group, Prof J. E Atta Mills has woefully failed the people of Ghana by allowing sleaze and corrupt acts to be institutionalised in his government.
They added that the President due to his bad leadership style has supervised the destruction of Ghana’s moral fibre and has allowed his ministers to connive with individuals to steal money belonging to the people of Ghana.
A press statement issued and signed by Mr Dennis Doe Vormavor, Chairman of Ghanaians Abroad Against Corruption based in Glasgow Scotland, last weekend called on the president to consider resigning and handing over his post to his deputy and institute an independent public inquiry into the circumstances that led to the award and payment of Judgement debts to Alfred Agbesi Woyome, a businessman and alleged financier of the NDC party as well as the payment of 90 million euros judgement debts to Construction Pioneers.
They also urged the yet to be President after the intended resignation of Prof Mills to also take up the task to investigate the payment of judgement debts to Africa Automobile company to the tune of over 20 million dollars and the disappearance of over 120 million US dollars from Get-fund projects, meant to improve Education infrastructure between January 2010 and November 2011.
The new president was also tasked to look into the use of state institutions such as the Ministry of Energy, to siphon oil proceeds worth 125 million US Dollars into offshore accounts in Gibraltar, the Maldives, Belize, The Turk and Caicos Islands, Singapore, Qatar and Panama.
The statement also requested for an inquisition into the exact role of Professor Kofi Awoonor, Chairman of the Council of State in signing government contracts and supervising appointments of ministers and deputies as well as a conflict of interest in the award of a contract to a company worth 35 million Dollars to build offices for members of the council of state by a company owned by him.
The statement also tasked the would be government to consider initiating an inquiry into the role of Dr George Sipah Yankey and Dr Kwesi Botchwey, in the award of Gas contracts worth over 800 million Dollars to Luka Oil, a Russian company and the circumstances of how one Larry Adjetey, a member ruling the NDC managed to sell Oil blocks off the coast of Keta and Saltpond to unknown foreign companies and made over 70 million Dollars between 2010 and 2011, ostensibly with the knowledge of the President, the Deputy finance Minister, Fiifi Kwetey and the Energy Minister Mr Joe Oteng Adjei in a secret project codenamed “FLYING BIRD.”
“Our Country is on its knees with economic hardship, damaging unemployment and poor health facilities. We call for a house cleaning of government and for the people of Ghana to rise up and stop the rot,” the statement added.
“President Mills must step down and make way for Mr John Mahama for Ghana to have a clean corruption free, transparent government, period!”
STORY BY: EVANS OSEI BAFFOUR
