Asantehene Cited As One Of The Owners Of EASYLINK

... Registrar General tight-lipped over missing company file
... Laws on right-hand drive and over-aged vehicles amended because of one man

Officials of the Registrar General's Department are tight-lipped as to the whereabouts of file number C-90-060, which is the file for Easylink Urban Transport Services ( Easylink). According to the Officer-in-Charge of the files, all her attempts at tracing file number C-90-060 have failed and therefore could not provide any information on the latest mass transportation company registered just about a year ago.

In an attempt to ascertain the truth or otherwise of rumours surrounding the ownership of the company, we stumbled upon a 'lead', which made us send our men to the Registrar General's Department. They paid the required fees of ?50,000 (Fifty Thousand Cedis), for a search for the names of the directors of the EasyLink. Unbelievably however, officials of the department are telling us stories claiming that file number C-90-060 is missing from their shelves. As part of the NPP Government's desire obviously to encourage its members to engage in an omnibus transportation programme, laws aimed at promoting safety on our roads, have been "amended" to allow all kinds of vehicles, regardless of the danger they pose, to be imported into the country.

As a result, a fleet of over-aged and right-hand double-decker buses, have been brought into the country, in breach of the existing rules. The fleet of double-decker buses, being run by the Easylink Company, fall under this category. Rumours are rife that the illegalities are being legalised because the owners of the vehicles are men of "high profile". Among names mentioned are the President, Mr J. A. Kufuor, himself, the Asantehene, Otumfuor Osei Tutu II and some top Ministers.

Sources at the Registrar General's office told the "Ghana Palaver" that the disappearance of the Easylink file from the office is a deliberate attempt at preventing the media from knowing who and who are behind the Easylink Urban Transport Service. Next Tuesday,we hope to bring to our readers how the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, during one of his visits to London, had negotiated for the double-decker buses. Were the buses for free or they were paid for?