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Nana Akomea, former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and a staunch critic of the Mahamma Administration�s running down of the promising National Youth Employment Module, now GYEEDA, has challenged a deputy Information and Media Relations minister, Murtala Mohammed to make public any act of wrong doing on the part of the NPP, as suggested by the deputy minister in the management of the module. Murtala Mohammed, in a recent submission on the corrupt-ridden activities of the GYEEDA, sought to equalize on the uncovered rot by pointing accusing fingers at the New Patriotic Party, for also contributing to the current mess of the programme. He particularly accused Nana Akomea, a former minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment under the Kufuor regime of criminality, for allegedly sending public service teachers to teach in some private schools, during his tenure as the sector minister. He also threatened to expose the NPP of equally soiling their fingers with corruption during their management of the National Youth Employment Programme. But Nana Akomea says a minister who speaks like that without providing any shred of evidence is not worthy to be paid with the tax payer�s money. ��That you have evidence of wrong doing and you wont give to give it to investigative organizations, I don�t think such a person qualifies to be paid with the tax payers money�. Nana Akomea opined that for a minister of state to allege having evidence of malfeasance and keeping same to his chest when investigative bodies are requesting information to help deal with the corruption that has bedeviled such an important national programme such as addressing Youth Employment is most disingenuous. According to him, the Mahama administrating lacks the political will to fight corruption and the way and manner the President is handling the GYEEDA rot attest to this fact. Nana Akomea maintained that contracts under the GEEDA programme was a carefully choreographed scheme to �create loot and share state cash�. To Nana Akomea, the whole response of the President to the glaring loot of state cash in the GYEEDA and its related issues, smacks of collusion and deliberate attempt to do nothing. He maintained the assertions made by NDC functionaries to the effect that the NPP government failed to enact laws to regulate the Youth Employment Scheme was wrong, as a memo was submitted in 2008 to cabinet on the subject. This has been confirmed in the handing over notes of the former NYEP boss Abuga Pele. According to Nana Akomea, the conspiracy to steal state cash goes beyond GYEEDA.