May 19, Palaver — With the revelation by the President?s eldest son, Chief John Addo Kufuor, that he is the owner of ?Hotel Kufuor?, and the further revelation by his Media Consultant, Mr. Charles Sam, that Chief Kufuor bought the hotel at the instance of his father the President, it now becomes clear why Ministers and appointees of the NPP Government, in the short period that they have been in office, have so brazenly sold state assets and properties to themselves, their cronies and NPP loyalists without the slightest twinge of compunction.
One such sale of state properties involved the assets of the defunct GNTC, sold to NPP loyalists by the then Minister of Trade and Industry Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, NPP MP for Offinso North.
Under questioning by our Editor, Mr. Jojo Bruce-Quansah, he referred our Editor to his then Deputy, Mr. Osei-Adjei, NPP MP for Ejisu-Juaben, now Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Information available to the ?Ghana Palaver? in 2003 suggested very shady deals, bordering perilously close on corruption in the manner in which Dr. Apraku and his Deputy dealt with the GNTC properties.
The properties included the Head Office, known as ?Ghana House?, the official residence of the Executive Chairman of the Corporation, the Corporation?s Guest House in Kumasi and more than 100 GNTC houses and residential properties countrywide.
The two stories that follow were first published in our issue Vol. 10 No. 6 of Tuesday, October 28 ? Thursday, October 30, 2005.
Source: GhanaWeb
