SIC Clears NADMO Boss Isaac Amoo

The Special Investigations Committee set up by the Ministry of Interior to investigate the thorny issue, of so-called irregularities pertaining to purchases and other operations of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), has given the former National Coordinator Mr George Isaac Amoo the all-clear, following the discovery of a mass of trumped-up charges and outright fabrications carelessly plotted to drag his name into the mud. In the report to clear the Honourable Amoo dated August 7, 2007 and prepared by two crack hands at the Audit Service and Bureau for National Investigations respectively namely Messrs E. K. Ghansah and Osman Dramani, the Committee made it evidently clear without a shred of doubt that, the former NADMO capo was as free as a bird in the tree and innocent as a new-born baby. The report stated that, a further investigation conducted with painstaking and careful effect has established the point that, Mr Amoo never supervised the sale of unwholesome rice or failed to deduct statutory taxes at NADMO, as was previously claimed by crooked image down-graders.

The need for a second look into the matter became evident, when the wronged National Coordinator and his team disputed most sections of the original report of July 18, 2007, actually punching holes in them, and exposing them to ridicule for a game-plan well and truly botched-up.

Facing disgrace and shame, the Committee beat a retreat and set to work to conduct further investigations, which has now given the game away to the effect that some hideous hands planted deep in mud, were all too happy to see Mr Amoo’s back.

THE SUN is still investigating whether this must have been the original reason why someone elsewhere at GIMPA, who was actually marking time in life, was imported into NADMO in the first place.

In a hilarious attempt at covering up the mess committed by the first report, the SIC said, “instead of the deduction of taxes being indicated on the narrative column of the payment vouchers, the tax deductions have been printed near the net amounts paid”. This piece of statement has amused so many kindergarten school kids to the point that, they actually laughed off their heads until they passed urine all over themselves.

To further add more comic to the whole episode the SIC report said, the trumped-up “findings would have been deleted from the initial report, if the accountant had been available towards the end of the investigations”. Whatever that statement means is anybody’s guess. But the fact of heaped-up scorn having been poured on Mr Amoo, only for a report to churn out a funny rescue-act is indeed laughable.

Several fair-minded Ghanaians have never stopped enquiring why agents very much against progress, even though shaded green with inexperience, would still want to be in a hurry to see the ex-NADMO boss’ back, with a mischievous hatch of a plot only to be exposed in a matter of weeks.

It would be recalled that in the first report to the Ministry of Interior concerning so-called irregularities at NADMO, the Ghanaian taxpayer was made to believe that Honourable Amoo had bypassed established procedure, to defraud the state by failing to honour tax obligations on IRS, NHIS and VAT on the items purchased. But the second report, which has been kept a secret from public eyes, has now come to shoot down the first, and subsequently established the cleanliness of the hands of a NADMO boss, who continues to suffer so much under his own government more than any other dispensation.