Akosua Manu, New Patriotic Party's parliamentary candidate for Adentan constituency, has slammed the opposition National Democratic Congress over the Attorney-General and Dr. Ato Forson's ambulance purchase case.
To Akosua Manu, an audio recording that seeks to incriminate the Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, was doctored to cast him in a bad light.
According to her, the original recording was 26 minutes long but the opposition National Democratic Congress chose to play only 16 minutes to the public which tells her that the NDC is hiding something from Ghanaians.
"The tape was doctored," she exclaimed and rubbished the NDC's press conference to tackle the issue.
"You hyped it more than a production for the latest Ghallywood movie," she blasted the opposition party in her submissions on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" show, adding the press conference was aimed at misleading Ghanaians.
Background
Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson and one Richard Jakpa have been charged at the Accra High Court for causing financial loss of €2.37 million to the State in a deal to purchase 200 ambulances for Ghana.
According to the A-G’s facts, the late former President John Evans Atta Mills, in 2009, while delivering the State of the Nation, noted that new ambulances would be purchased to expand the operations of the National Ambulance Service.
He informed the nation about the move to buy 200 ambulances but only 30 ambulances were purchased at a sum of €2.37 million.
The procurement of the 30 ambulances was spearheaded by Richard Jakpa, a local representative of a Dubai-based company called Big Sea General Trading Limited, who approached the Ministry of Health with a proposal he had arranged for finance from Stanbic Bank for the supply of the 200 ambulances and Ato Forson who was then the Deputy Finance Minister.
During cross-examination in court before the trial judge, Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, Richard Jakpa dropped a bombshell.
He stated that the Attorney-General and himself had met at the private residence of a Supreme Court Justice, Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, in a supposed plea bargain negotiation.
“A-G has on several occasions engaged me at odd hours to help him make a case against A1 and I have evidence for that. If he pushes me, I will open the Pandora’s box.”
“I don’t understand why the A-G will accuse me of defending A1 when I’m here to defend myself”, Jakpa said in court.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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