Two Directors Of Urban Roads Incriminated In Corruption Scandal
Two Directors at the Department of Urban Roads have been incriminated in a bribery and corruption scandal at the department.
Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama has been petition by some investigative journalists of the Salis newspaper to take disciplinary action against the two Directors over their unethical conducts.
Aside receiving bribes to conduct business for the investigators who posed as foreign investors, the Directors were also caught on tape revealing their plot to ensure the dismissal of the Director of the Department, Alhaji Dr. Abbas, who they said is serving as a stumbling block to them.
As part of the effort at ending rot in the public sector, especially urban roads, Salis newspaper investigators have succeeded in trapping some of officials who have been extorting monies from potential investors before offering them contracts.
This exposé was necessitated by the several complains from the public on the illegalities that is thriving in that sector of the economy.
In these investigations, the allegations of bribery and unethical conduct were clearly confirmed on tape.
The investigators managed to expose Benjamin Bampoe and Francis Torsu, both Metropolitan and Municipal Director of the Department of urban roads respectively, on tape taking money from a suppose investor who wants a contract from the urban roads department.
Both Benjamin Bampoe, the Tema Metropolitan Director and Francis Torsu, the new Juaben Municipal Director of the Department of urban roads in the Eastern Region, were caught taking monies in two separate instances.
The tape also reveals how some persons within the department are planning to ditch the Director of the Urban roads, one Alhaji Dr. Abbas due to his strict and uncompromising attitude towards fishy deals.
To this end, one broadcast Journalist Bismark Brown, has petitioned the, Local Government and Rural Development Ministry to deal with the rot.
The current Minister for Transport Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, and Dr. Nana Ato Arthur, a Development Engineer and Local Government Expert, who doubles as the Head of the Local Government Service, have promised to dispense justice accordingly.
The public is to be assured that the appropriate authorities will investigate the issue and undertake the necessary action to serve as a deterrent to other people.
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