[ 2017-01-23 ]

Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije

AMA In ‘Missing’ Car Saga
A FORMER broadcast journalist of Ghana
Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) has accused the
Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) of carelessly
allowing his car to go missing at its car park at
the Rawlings Park within the metropolis.

According to the car owner, Amankwa Ampofo, who
spoke to DAILY GUIDE, the incident occurred in
August 2016.

Mr. Ampofo said he had parked his car, a wine
color Toyota Corolla S with registration number GW
3919 – X at the Rawlings Park and handed over
its keys to an AMA official in charge of the park
as he proceeded to undertake some private
activities within the Central Business District.

He indicated upon his returned after an hour, the
AMA official who had collected his car keys and
who was looking after the car could not an account
of its whereabouts.

The AMA staff was subsequently arrested, Mr.
Ampofo narrated, and was granted bail the
following day after an intervention by the
Coordinating Director of the AMA, Ayeh Dartey and
the Assembly’s lawyer.

Considering the negative image it would have
created for the AMA, Mr. Ampofo said the
Coordinating Director and the Lawyer for the
Assembly pleaded with him not to take the matter
to court but have it resolved amicably.

According to him, the Assembly after series of
discussions with him, agreed to pay for the car
which he said cost GH¢ 40,000, by paying him
(Ampofo) GH¢ 10,000 on a weekly basis.

The Coordinating Director issued him the first
cheque of GH¢ 10,000 which was known to the
immediate past Mayor of Accra, Alfred Okoe
Vanderpuije.

But the cheque did not go through when he took it
to the bank to cash it, so he returned it to the
Coordinating Director.

According to him, after nearly three months, he
was given another cheque of GH¢ 10,000 which he
cashed successfully.

However, he lamented that the AMA had since last
year August failed to pay the remaining GH¢
30,000 as agreed, with the Coordinating Director
giving him different excuses each time he goes to
the Head Office of the Assembly to get the money.

Meanwhile, all efforts to get Mr. Dartey to
respond to the issue were unsuccessful, as calls
placed on his phone were not answered.
 

 

Source - Daily Guide

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