[ 2017-02-10 ]

Felix Kwakye-Ofosu

We accounted for all state vehicles – Kwakye Ofosu
The deputy minister for Communications under  the
erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC)
government, Felix Kwakye Ofosu says the former
government duly handed over all state vehicles to
the new government.


According to him, the claims by the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) government that over 200 state cars
are missing, has nothing to do with the immediate
past government.

The Director of Communications at the Presidency,
Eugene Arhin, revealed to the media on Wednesday
[February 8] that, there are so far 208 cars
unaccounted for from the Flagstaff House’s
vehicle pool, based on the assessment of some car
models in the inventory.

His claims suggested that some officials of the
immediate past government were in possession of
the vehicles, but according to Mr Kwakye Ofosu,
the NDC government cannot be blamed.

He said the new government must provide further
information on the specific cars identified to be
missing to enable proper checks and references and
a possible search to find them.

“The claim that this vehicles cannot be found is
completely untrue to the extent that they [NPP]
are unable to tell you what specific vehicles they
cannot find. We have given you a list, the
vehicles are parked at specific places that you
are aware of and you unable to say they
registration number and chassis number of the
missing vehicles.”

“It is when they are able to provide this
specific information that we will be able to cross
reference with the list that we gave them and then
those vehicles will be looked for if they are
indeed missing.

But at this stage and as far as we are concerned,
every vehicle that we need to account for, we have
done, and the onus is on them to provide very
specific information,” Kwakye Ofosu said.

A statement signed by the former Deputy Chief of
Staff, Johnny Osei Kofi, also described the new
government’s claims as “false, baseless and
without merit.”
The statement said, the “distortions and bad
faith that have characterized the conduct of the
NPP side of the Transition team.”

It explained that “both the Assets and Logistics
Committee on the NPP side were given a detailed
list of all vehicles in the pool at the
Presidency. More importantly, a total of 641
vehicles were listed and properly accounted for.

This was duly captured in the handing over
notes.” It also called on the government to
provide further evidence to back its claims of
lost vehicles.

Source - citifmonline.com

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