That the last campaign by the National Democratic Congress NDC was a platform for top level activists to retire themselves in anticipation of a looming 2016 election defeat is revealed in the massive loot that had accompanied the NDC campaign in the run up to the 2016 elections.
Your authoritative Daily Searchlight can reveal that, from the corridors of John Mahama’s administration, is now coming shocking accounts on how the leadership of the Ashanti Regional National Democratic Congress (NDC) blew to the bones a whopping sum of GH₵705,000.00 (GH₵7.5 billion old currency),without accounting to anybody.
The alleged misappropriated funds, according to credible sources close to the party, was meant for supporting the party’s monitoring agents who were tasked to monitor the polling stations election to ensure transparent pols in the Region.
But unfortunately at the time of going to press, this paper learnt, the money has since been allegedly diverted into private pockets.
It is still a mystery who took possession of it from the NDC headquarters in Accra, even though it remains on paper that the money was signed out to an NDC Regional executive member.
The stinking deal we can, however, state is currently creating a lot of disquiet among rank and file members in the constituencies, and tearing the party apart in the Ashanti Region.
Informer sources confidently told this paper, apart from the huge undisclosed sum of monies channelled into the Ashanti NDC campaign to advance the fortunes of the party in wining their projected one million votes, another GH₵7.5 billion old currency was further topped up to be shared to all the 47 constituencies in the region to facilitate monitoring.
In addition to this huge sum of money,e very constituency was to be given GH15,00.00 (150 million old currency) to motivate foot soldiers to deliver.
At an emergence crisis meeting held at the NDC Regional Office near the Kumasi Technical Institute on December 26, 2016, after the party's defeat in which all the 47 constituency chairmen were present, it allegedly came to limelight that, though the said GH7.5 billion actually reached base in Kuamsi, only 17 constituencies benefited from the booty. Information gathered by this paper alleged that it was the Regional Chairman, Yaw Obimpeh who took receipt of the money.
The revelation was not taken lightly by the rest, as confusion rocked the meeting, resulting in near exchange of blows between the Regional Vice Chairman of the party, Mr. Alex Attivor Sowa and Chairman Yaw Obimpeh.
Attivor was alleged to have leaked the deal to the Constituency Chairman of Kwadaso,Mr. Alhassan Kusi, who had allegedly snubbed Chairman Yaw Obimpeh over how the cash should be split when Kusi was invited for a secret meeting.
When the story broke out, the media were blockaded, with lead beneficiary and regional chairman Obimpeh ensuring that measures were put in place to prevent the proceedings from getting exposed.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the remaining thirty constituencies who did not benefit form the fund have threatened to go public to expose the regional executive members or discard the party if the national headquarters of the party in Accra fail to ensure that full scale investigations were put in place to bring the said culprits in this disgraceful scandal to book.
Some of the party chairman who spoke to this paper were also of the view that, it was through this dirty scandal that the party heavily lost the election in the Ashanti Region. Present at the crisis-ridden meeting include Mr. Joseph Yamin, formal deputy Regional Minister of Ashanti who also doubles as the national coordinator of NADMO and Mr. Ashen deputy regional organizer (operations) of the party.
Source: The Insight
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Nobody accounts for party funds in NDC ... that's where the top leaders make money ... why do you think that Asiedu Nketiah is cocooned in the GS position? There he can do what he pleases with NDC and Ghana money without accounting to anyone. That is his and NDC party officials' genius ... steaaling on the blind side of the party.
condeming ndc for the same thing npp does,while poor people are suffering and when God sends a man like governor noble mensah to talk some sense to ghanaians,they ignore him well a ***barred word*** is always a ***barred word***.those two political parties can play with the lives of poor people but they should know that judgement is around the corner
IF THEY DO SUCH THING TO THEMSELVES WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY HAVE TO THE COUNTRY
The New currency is about 10 yrs old and Ghanaians still refer to the old currency. Are we backward people or what? I get confused when someone mentions an amount in old cedis. I have to convert to GHC by dividing by 10,000. Why can't we stick to the GHC for once.
Why are you quote 'old currency'? Over 10 years on, and your reporting have not 'grown up?
Thank God this Y3 nky3 ndi government has been over and done with. Chop chop s))) in the NDC. Now they will fight for the small that is in individuals pockets. Hahahahahaha...... I laughed out loud. No more in govt.. no more chop chop. Bye Bye Mahama!! Bye Bye NDC!!! Ghana can work again.
THESE NDC PEOPLE ARE FUNNY.EVEN IF THEY HAD SUNK BILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO ASHANTI REGION ALONE IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET 1MILLION VOTES THERE.GHANAIANS WERE JUST FED UP WITH THE MESS PRES MAHAMA LED THE ECONOMY INTO.CANT THEY JUST GET IT THAT GHANAIANS WERE LIVING IN HELL UNDER MAHAMA.?WHY WONT THEY ASK THEMSELVES WHY THEY LOST MISERABLY IN CENTRAL REGION.A REGION THAT IS NOT ANY PARTY STRONGHOLD
Was the redenomination of the cedis a waste?
where is the money come from,thats is Ghanaian's moneyooooooooooooooooo.
In the opening paragraph, the story is attributed to the searchlight but at the end of the story we see the Insight. check and recheck