[ 2017-02-11 ]

Over 400 state vehicles 'missing' not 200 - Pratt to Gov't
Eugene Arhin, Director of the Communications at
the Presidency, informed Ghanaians earlier this
week that over Two Hundred (200) vehicles are
nowhere to be found among the fleet of cars at the
Presidency.

The vehicles were given to the officials of the
past NDC government to use and to return after
exiting office.

But in a statement on Thursday, former Deputy
Chief of Staff, Johnny Osei Kofi, said Mr.
Arhin’s claims were “false, baseless and
without merit”, adding that they represented a
continuation of the “distortions and bad faith
that have characterised the conduct of the NPP
side of the Transition team.”

The statement also explained that “as part of
the transition process, 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.”

Speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Ag. Deputy
Executive Director of the National Service Scheme,
Nana Boakye stated that the "cars that are there
as I talk now are 173. In fact, the Ford
Expedition is not part . . . That car is not part
of the fleet of vehicles . . . 173 cars, the
registration numbers are there.

"This is a list of cars that comes from Jubilee
House. The car’s number, the vehicle’s
description, chassis number, and the leader in
Jubilee House who’s been given for use and any
other thing whether it’s bullet proof or not
bullet proof are all there. These are serviceable.
Serviceable vehicles at the Flagstaff House are
173 . . .

"Even the Ford Expedition that was given as a gift
to the President (John Mahama) and he said that
its been added to the fleet of vehicles at the
presidency (Ford Expedition vehicle presented to
former President John Dramani Mahama as gift by
Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe)...and that
it is for the government and has been registered,
and so it’s part of the State cars. It is not
part of the vehicles. It’s not there. So,
somebody should come and show us where the
vehicles are."

But in a quick riposte, the Managing Editor of the
Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt has found the
revelations shocking because to him, the NPP
government should be able to account for the
missing vehicles.

According to him, if the Nana Addo led government
claims that over 200 cars are missing from the
Flagstaff House, they should disclose the list of
the missing vehicles with the chassis numbers and
any vital information that will assist in
investigations.

Mr. Pratt doubted the government's disclosure by
alluding to the list of 641 vehicles that the
former Deputy Chief of Staff, Johnny Osei Kofi put
out on Thursday and claimed there is no way 208
vehicles could be said to have gone missing.

To him, if the vehicles that were at the Flagstaff
House were 641, then it means over 400 cars were
taken by officials of the previous government.

“How come you say that something of yours is
missing but you don’t know that particular
thing? Is that not strange? That you claim
you’ve lost something but you don’t know
exactly what’s missing because the first thing
in determining that something is missing is you
know what’s missing," he said.

Source - peacefmonline.com

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