Ghost Names Scandal A Castle (2)

…Chief of Staff’s Special Assistant Exposed

MR. KWASI Ankamah, Chief of Staff’s Special Assistant at Osu castle is in hot waters over ghost names scandal when he dared The Sun, and threatening to ruthlessly deal with the paper in court.

Documents and pieces of evidence at the disposal of the paper indicate that, Mr. Ankamah’s activities at the Seized Vehicles Disposal committee has brought the office of the presidency into disrepute.

Despite his legal threats to make life uncomfortable for The Sun’s editor, and also deal ruthlessly with the paper in court, evidence available to the paper shows that Ankamah is deeply at the heart of the ghost names scandal the paper reported last week.

The paper can report that more than ten people Ankamah sold seized vehicles to, have the same address which is in contravention with the requirements, transparency and spirit of the whole process.

Above ten people who benefited by the sale used the contact address of Mr. Sampson Sampana, otherwise known as SAMP, in the ghost names world who is a civilian security personnel at the Osu Castle with close links to Mr. Ankamah. The cars that found their way to similar contact are two Opel Astra, VW Golf, four Mercedes Benz, Cherokee Astra Bus.

Others are Nissan Pathfinder, Isuzu Trooper and jaguar. All these vehicles were sold to different people with one single contact address, which gave the game away.

When the Sun reached Mr. Ankamah on Wednesday,May 9, on his cell phone to book an appointment for his reaction to the concerns of the public, that he had done something untoward while in charge of the sale of seized vehicles, he threatened to deal with the paper in court should he see any publication to that effect on the matter.

“I cannot grant you any interview about the seized vehicles. Go and write that your useless article about me. You will see”, Mr. Ankamah barked at the other end.

“Both Chronicle and The Vanguard have interviewed me about this same issue. I have no time to waste on the car issue again but be warned. If you write anything about me I would make life uncomfortable for you and sue you,” he raged on the cell phone.

“I cannot keep on speaking to journalists who use unanimous letters to interview people,” he screamed.

Last November, an attempt by The Sun to interview him about aspects of the issue in connection with illegal committees said to have been set up by him to dispose off seized vehicles, in the northern sector. This resulted in threats that if the paper published anything about the issue it would be sued to the point of its collapse.

The genesis of the issue is that, just when public eyebrows were being raised over what they called the illegal and dubious setting up of a committee by Ankamah to handle seized vehicles, the Chief of Staff’s office had been rocked with what observers saw as a scandal over the same seized vehicles, which had to do with ghost names.

Mr. Sampson Sampana, a civilian Security Man at the Castle who seem to hold part the keys to the mystery about seized vehicles, ghost names scandal has spoken to the Sun in a documentary interview which confirms the story. As to why his name Sampana was changed to SAMP on the seized vehicles allocation list and represent over ten people and other matters is another subject all together.

However, apart from the ghost names that were smuggled into the allocation list, The Sun has come into other activities of Ankamah, which, when not nipped in the bud, is likely to tarnish the image of President J. A. Kufuor’s government.

EDITOR’S NOTE: After our first report, our office has been inundated with calls from concerned people to support our story and Ankamah’s activities. More Annon. Keep reading The Sun as we unmask the cloak of secrecy surrounding the sales of the seized vehicles to ghost people.