The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service is reportedly investigating Kofi Adams, National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), over the fleet of vehicles retrieved from his residence last week.
And it is being speculated that he’s ‘struggling’ with documentations regarding ownership of the vehicles.
Kofi Adams, who was also the campaign coordinator of ex-President Mahama’s re-election bid in the 2016 national polls, was said to have reported to the CID Headquarters in Accra on Tuesday for questioning over the vehicles.
According to information available to DAILY GUIDE, contrary to report that five SUV vehicles were found in his house, there were other vehicles, including six Toyota Land Cruiser V8s which had allegedly been taken out of the house to unknown locations.
Scanty Details
A CID source told DAILY GUIDE that the NDC organizer reported at their office and was asked to go back and bring more documents covering the seized vehicles, including two V8 Land Cruisers and three brand new Toyota pick-ups; but the whereabouts of four V8s were reportedly unknown.
Five vehicles – two Toyota Land Cruiser V8s with registration numbers GS 7451-12 and GN 7796-16 – and three Nissan Hard Body pick-ups with registration numbers GM 842-16, GM 823-16 and GM 846-16, were seized from his Golf City area home in Tema last week Wednesday.
According to reports, some of the vehicles were purchased in the name of the state but the current owner allegedly scrapped [tampered] with the Chassis numbers under the wind shield of the pickups and sealed the place with a metal – all in an attempt to change ownership of the vehicles.
Interestingly however, they could not scrap the Chassis numbers in the engine.
One of the Toyota Land Cruiser V8s with registration number GS 7451-12 was indeed part of the presidential escorts, according to information reaching DAILY GUIDE.
Other Vehicles With CID
Apart from Kofi Adams’ vehicles, there are three others – a luxurious BMW and Toyota Camry belonging to other NDC gurus – that have also been intercepted by the police and are being investigated to establish whether they are government vehicles.
A brand new Toyota Camry, according to the police source, was auctioned to the NDC owner at just GH¢4,000, raising questions from investigators.
The source said that the documents Kofi Adams had brought were ‘insufficient’ to cover the five vehicles which were still in the custody of the police at the CID Headquarters.
Further Investigations
The police, according to the source, have not concluded their investigations to establish whether indeed the vehicles belong to Mr Kofi Adams or not, since there are too many ‘mysteries’ surrounding the acquisition of those vehicles.
There have been claims that the chassis numbers of the vehicles have either been removed or replaced and the police were said to be liaising with both the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) and the Customs division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to establish the true ownership of the vehicles.
Kofi Adams has already said that all the vehicles belong to him, denying that they are government vehicles.
Bragging
He even bragged that as a high-profile officer of a party like the NDC, he is capable of acquiring such vehicles.
He was in far away Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, when National Security operatives with the support of personnel from the DVLA and the GRA, stormed his residence and seized the vehicles – having gone there earlier.
Real Struggle
Immediately Mr Kofi Adams returned from the trip, he created the impression that he was going to collect the vehicles without any sweat.
However, it is turning out that he is ‘struggling’ to provide the necessary documents as proof of ownership in order for the vehicles to be released to him by the police.
Since Kofi Adams reported to the police, he has suddenly gone underground.
Information gathered by this paper indicates that the security team that stormed his residence initially saw eight V8 Land Cruisers but when they returned to pick them, four had vanished and they managed to ‘seize’ only two.
Bombshell
Last week, Nana Obiri Boahen, Deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), alleged that the vehicles taken from Kofi Adams’ house belong to the state.
According to Nana Obiri Boahen, most of the vehicles were “stolen from government,” and their chassis numbers were changed and sold to Kofi Adams.
Nana Obiri Boahen stated for instance, that the chassis number of one of the V8 Land Cruisers with registration number GM 843-15, was changed before it was transferred to Kofi Adams saying, “I’m telling you authoritatively that Kofi Adams’s car is a Government of Ghana vehicle. It was stolen and sold.”
In the heat of the confusion, National Security Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah, was said to have directed the return of the vehicles and Kofi Adams had said later that he asked the caretaker of his residence to return the vehicles to the police until his arrival.
200 Vehicles Missing
Meanwhile, Director of Communications at the presidency, Eugene Arhin, has stated that over 200 vehicles in presidential pool were nowhere to be found at the Flagstaff House.
None of former President John Mahama’s numerous Toyota Avalons as well as the Land Cruisers can be traced at the pool at the Flagstaff House, with strong suspicion that they have been hidden at certain locations.
Subsequently, Eugene said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had been forced to use a 2007 model of a saloon car to discharge his duties in Accra.
“President Akufo Addo is currently using a 2007 BMW model purchased by the state during the Ghana @50 celebrations…That is what he is using. So where are the cars?” he questioned.
Speaking on Neat Fm’s ‘morning show’ programme yesterday, Eugene stated that when going on a long journey outside the capital, the president uses his own private vehicle.
“Just last week Saturday, the president had to use his private Land Cruiser for an official duty in Kyebi. That is the same Land Cruiser he used during the campaign time,” he told the host of the programme.
Source: Daily Guide
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Tony the bull is NDC Ewe whom I mostly meet at cafe. His tactics is to ruin NPP as if Ashantis hate Ewes. I know him for more than 5 years. He will get rewards from what he's doing. I'm from Asante Mampong and my wife is from Volta. We have 3 kids. What's wrong about it? Skin pain.
if kofi adams could say that he is a high profile officer in ndc and therefore capable of buy these cars, then the question is how much is his monthly salary as the organizer of a political party here in Ghana. and how much at all is in the coffers of the ndc.
Your hatred for Ewes is really strong. Shame in you. I'm an Ewe in npp and you're making it unattractive for others to join. If you must know: Kofi Adams is originally called Kofi Adamu and he's a Kotokoli from Togo. Look at his triangle hairline and it is obvious.!
...so they can't be moved. This is going to be a wild goose chase but God dey!
Massa; these NDC 'varanda boys' do not even know the Chief kriminals amongst them because they have this delusions that they are a smart ; what they do not know is that the party NDC is a kriminal cartel or mafia led by Jon Mahama as the 'DON'; Kofi Adams was an enforcer and kriminal pimp collecting cash for Jon Mahama and the some NDC key members; Kofi Adam is still a double agent in the party and was planted in the NDC secretariat to spy and listen in to everything that was said ; remember he was kicked out but JJ Rawlings begged the good and great in the NDC to allow Kofi Adams back with a purpose ; Kofi Adams grew big winds and big shoes ; he was arrogant because he knew the founder was with him ; even Asiedu Nketia did not like him and ended up as the party organiser -BIG MISTAKE !!!!! look at his performance in the last elections abysmal and very poor but this was a deliberate play by his gang in the NDC ; they shared the cash meant for the varanda boys and stole these cars from the state with the intention to alter the chassis numbers ; what ***barred word*** did not know was that these days you cannot easily alter these chassis numbers on cars because of fraud !!!!!; when Ken Agyepong contronted him that he was a proper thiff risen fron a poor background withe the intention to still ; this ayigbe guy went mute because he knew what was being was true ; (watch ***barred word***; Kofi Adams is a mouth mouth and a thiff just as his master JJ Rawlings from the ewe stock ; they just still and lie ; does this kleptomaniac think the police will give him the cars back easily ; HE MUST BE JOKING !!!!!!! ; the police has intelligence that the cars were stolen; these days do you see similar cars on the streets -NO it has all disappear into thin air ; NEXT TIME GHANAIANS SHOULD NEVER VOTE NDC AGAIN !!!!!!THEY HAVE PROVED INCAPABLE AND FOR AS FOR THIS KOFI ADAMS HE SHOULD END UP IN JAIL : THE POLICE SHOULD HAVE ARRESTED THE EWE/AYIGBE THIFFMAN ; FIAFITOR PROPER !!!!!
HOW MANY CARS ARE IN THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE THAT OVER 200 OF THEM IN THE PRESIDENTIAL POOL MISSING? GHANA IS INTERESTING
All NDC functionaries who have stol,.en vehicles should be arraigned before court and jai.led. This uncalled for practice where outgone officials st.eal state property must stop. We need to name and shame to stop these fil.thy behaviours.
This stuuuuuuupid guy call Kofi Adams must be investigated properly and jailed if found to have stolen any vehicle. I cant imagine how such a thieeef is a national organizer for a party.
Incredible! What does Kofi Adams want to do with so many cars?? God have mercy on Ghana.
The president should arrest all those who steal government property and jail them for four year before he leave office