Investigate NPP aspirants source of funding -Wayo

THE LEADER of the United Renaissance Party (URP), Mr Charles Kofi Wayo, has urged the investigative bodies in the country, especially the Bureau of National Investigations, Serious Fraud Office (BNI) and the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the source of funding of various aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

According to him, the rate at which some aspirants are splashing out money in their bid to succeed President John Agyekum Kufuor is worrying, considering their status in 1992 before the NPP assumed power.

Additionally, Mr Wayo, who is also criss-crossing the nation canvassing for votes for his URP, in a telephone chat with this paper also tasked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to declare the tax returns of all the presidential aspirants of the NPP.

He stated that the wanton display of money by these aspirants in the faces of the disadvantaged and the less privileged in society indicated that the NPP as a party had come into government to rob its citizens.

Unhappy with this development, he stressed that it was unfortunate that at a time farmers, teachers, including journalists could not make ends meet due to poor remuneration, the NPP aspirants who were also poor some years back were now splashing out money as if they printed the money by themselves.

?It is a disturbing issue and I think that the BNI, CHRAJ, SFO and other investigative agencies must conduct independent checks into the backgrounds of these aspirants to prevent them from looting the nation,? he said.

The veteran politician cum politician who had tasked the investigative bodies was quick to raise doubts about the ineffectiveness of such bodies.

According to him, he finds it repugnant that these bodies have failed to conduct investigations into the lodging of over one billion cedis by Mr Charles Bintim, the former Minister of Local Government into a bank account.

The vociferous politician could not understand the roles of the Office of Accountability at the Office of the President.

Accusing the NPP of ?outright thievery?, Mr Wayo, a former stalwart of the NPP further stung the NPP of being in league with cocaine dealers.

Contending that corruption is still rife in the nation, he said, ?The NPP thinks that they cannot win the elections and they are grabbing everything from left to right.?

In his submission, he said because of the policies of the NPP, the World Bank was treating blacks as people with no brains.