[ 2017-01-19 ]

Yaw Obimpeh, NDC Ashanti Regional Chairman

Ashanti NDC pocket GHS705,000 in fruitless one million votes campaign
That the last campaign by the National Democratic
Congress NDC was a platform for top-level
activists to retire themselves in anticipation of
a looming 2016 election defeat is revealed in the
massive loot that had accompanied the NDC campaign
in the run up to the 2016 elections.

Your authoritative Daily Searchlight can reveal
that, from the corridors of John Mahama’s
administration, is now coming shocking accounts on
how the leadership of the Ashanti Regional
National Democratic Congress (NDC) blew to the
bones a whopping sum of GHS705,000.00 (GHS7.5
billion old currency), without accounting to
anybody.

The alleged misappropriated funds, according to
credible sources close to the party, was meant for
supporting the party’s monitoring agents who
were tasked to monitor the polling stations
election to ensure transparent polls in the
Region.

But unfortunately at the time of going to press,
this paper learnt, the money has since been
allegedly diverted into private pockets.

It is still a mystery who took possession of it
from the NDC headquarters in Accra, even though it
remains on paper that the money was signed out to
an NDC Regional executive member.

The stinking deal we can, however, state is
currently creating a lot of disquiet among the
rank and file members in the constituencies, and
tearing the party apart in the Ashanti Region.

Informer sources confidently told this paper,
apart from the huge undisclosed sum of monies
channelled into the Ashanti NDC campaign to
advance the fortunes of the party in winning the
projected one million votes, another GHS7.5
billion old currency was further topped up to be
shared to all the 47 constituencies in the region
to facilitate monitoring.

In addition to this huge sum of money, every
constituency was to be given GHS15,00.00 (150
million old currency) to motivate foot soldiers to
deliver.

At an emergency crisis meeting held at the NDC
Regional Office near the Kumasi Technical
Institute on December 26, 2016, after the party's
defeat in which all the 47 constituency chairmen
were present, it allegedly came to limelight that,
though the said GH7.5 billion actually reached
base in Kumasi, only 17 constituencies benefited
from the booty. Information gathered by this paper
alleged that it was the Regional Chairman, Yaw
Obimpeh who took receipt of the money.

The revelation was not taken lightly by the rest,
as confusion rocked the meeting, resulting in near
exchange of blows between the Regional Vice
Chairman of the party, Mr. Alex Attivor Sowa and
Chairman Yaw Obimpeh.

Attivor was alleged to have leaked the deal to the
Constituency Chairman of Kwadaso, Mr. Alhassan
Kusi, who had allegedly snubbed Chairman Yaw
Obimpeh over how the cash should be split when
Kusi was invited for a secret meeting.

When the story broke out, the media were
blockaded, with the lead beneficiary and regional
chairman Obimpeh ensuring that measures were put
in place to prevent the proceedings from getting
exposed.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the remaining thirty
constituencies who did not benefit form the fund
have threatened to go public to expose the
regional executive members or discard the party if
the national headquarters of the party in Accra
fail to ensure that full-scale investigations were
put in place to bring the said culprits in this
disgraceful scandal to book.

Some of the party chairmen who spoke to this paper
were also of the view that, it was through this
dirty scandal that the party heavily lost the
election in the Ashanti Region.

Present at the crisis-ridden meeting includes Mr.
Joseph Yamin, formal deputy Regional Minister of
Ashanti who also doubles as the national
coordinator of NADMO and Mr. Ashen deputy regional
organiser (operations) of the party.

Source - Daily Searchlight

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