I am constrained to correct yet another distortion about the whereabouts of vehicles belonging to the Presidency.
On Wednesday, Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications at the Flagstaff House, in a widely circulated interview, claimed that 200 vehicles in the pool at the presidency were missing.
He also claimed that the supposed disappearance of these vehicles has created an acute shortage compelling President Akufo Addo to resort to the use of 2007 model BMW vehicles and in some instances his own cross-country vehicle for official duties.
The claims of Eugene Arhin are false, baseless without merit. They represent a continuation of the distortions and bad faith that have characterised the conduct of the NPP side of the Transition team.
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. The breakdown of the vehicles are indicated in the table below;
It is befuddling that several weeks after the NPP administration begun this campaign of disinformation and harassment of members of the immediate past government, it has as yet failed to put out an iota of evidence to back these claims.
If the NPP government was sincere about these claims,it would have published a full list of all allegedly missing vehicles and provide specific information on each of them.
I also found astonishing, the claim by Eugene Arhin that President Akufo Addo cannot find decent vehicles to use and has had to rely on 2007 model BMWs for his movements since becoming President.
It must be placed on record that the use of the BMWs and his personal vehicle, if it is true, is not due to the non-availability of presidential vehicles. It is clearly a choice that he made on his own accord.
Among the vehicles handed over to the NPP team were two bulletproof salon cars and two bulletproof cross country vehicles specifically dedicated to the use of the President. Both sets of bulletproof vehicles are relatively new and in good condition for the transportation of the President.
Added to this is a fleet of almost new Mercedes Benz vehicles. Surely if President Akufo Addo can use 10 year old vehicles, he should be able to use vehicles that are relatively new and in good condition.
The attempt therefore by Eugene Arhin to create the impression of scarcity and use same as a pretext to justify the unwarranted falsehood about missing vehicles belonging to the Presidency is disingenuous and unbecoming of a public official whose actions must be guided by integrity and candour.
It is obvious from the foregoing that Eugene Arhin’s intervention is part of a grand scheme by the Akufo Addo/Bawumia government to demonise members of the previous administration for cheap partisan propaganda purposes.
In the interest of transparency and candour, a detailed inventory of all vehicles accounted for during the transition process has been attached to this statement.
The onus now lies squarely on the Akufo Addo/Bawumia government to provide very specific details of the supposedly missing vehicles out of the list provided below.
JOHNNY OSEI KOFI
FORMER DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF
Thursday, 9th February, 2017
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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To tell you this th1ef is also a big liar, do the math yourself: He listed the total cars left behind as 641 but the they actually add up to 619. Making it 22 shot of his own information. I thought these CR1M1NALS can't read and it's very vivid they are poor in simple mathematics too. What a shame. These are the people we invested power in to run our dear nation. God have mercy and help us.
Your statement and tabulation are begging for so many questions; Where is your beginning inventory, acquisitions, disposals to reach a proper final ending inventory? We need smart people with common sense to be in government to move the nation forward. No wonder nothing is working in Ghana. Due to ***barred word*** corruption and incompetence politicians in Ghana always try to throw dust in our eyes in order to get away with murder. What was this guy thinking to rush to feed Ghanaians with this poison? He should come again with a better information. This a piece of garbage.
This list doesn't mean a thing and not worthy of the paper written on. What shows that the cars were handed over to the in coming administration? Who to the inventory? When was the inventory taking? Where are the signatories to the people involved in the hand over? Were they handed over to the in coming government or the transitional General administrator? Captured in the handing over note doesn't the were actually handed over. Proper handing over would had involved a detailed information about each vehicle on an acceptable inventory format and reconciled to the physical inspection and count in front of the two parties involved or handed over to an agreed party as a custodian. Please come again because a K-1 student wont buy you Kwaku Ananse evidence. No where in your statement indicated the cars were handed over to party A or B. You never answer the when, how, who and the where questions.
Mr. Osei Kofi, pls come again. i guess you were in a hurry to bring this wrong fact to ghanaians so you couldn't tabulate well or your calculator was faulty.Pls come back and answer to ghanaians these questions. 1. Where is the ford explorer? 2.Where is the rest of the 22 cars that were not disclosed (641-619)=22 3. Did you hand over the physical vehicles to the NPP transition team members or you just gave them a sheet like what u just presented.
MASSA CAN'T U SEE FORD/PASSAT-6! NO. 21!! INCOMPETENT NANA ADDO ADMINISTRATION OF FAMILY AND KINSMEN AND NANA ADDO'S BABIES WITH SHARP KNIVES!!
Please I cant see the Ford Expedition in the List ooooo. Does this list show that there is no missing car? the question is, how mamy cars does the government of ghana has and how many was handed over?
Massa you are wrong. The cars are 619 instead of 641
Every Ghanaian knows that the NDC has extraordinary st3al1ing skills.These vehicles are nothing compared to the massive l00ting of national resources under John Mahama.Billions of dollars that should be used to develop this nation has been squandered by these maggots.Their MPs sit in parliament and all they do is defend one of the most corrupt homo sapiens ever to be leader of a modern state.
Toyota Hyundai i10? #Toyota Hyundai collaboration or maybe they were the ones given to the UG legon girls in 2012.
Please can we have a look at controversial FORD GIFT to Fmr. Prez. John DRAMANI KANAZOE.