GYEEDA saga: ‘I stepped on big toes’ – Afriyie-Ankrah

Former Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah says he made a lot of enemies during his attempt to get to the bottom of the corruption-riddled modules of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA), which were meant to create temporary jobs for the youth.

The programme got enmeshed in what the Minority in Parliament described as unbridled corruption and graft involving high-profile business people.

President John Mahama ordered that it be restructured to purge it of corruption and make it work properly.

Afriyie-Ankrah, who superintended the investigation and restructuring process while in office as Minister, told STARR NEWS on Thursday that: “Look at me dealing with GYEEDA, and I’m told that it’s part of my problems because in GYEEDA, I stepped on toes; ok, I stepped on big toes."

“So look at me, consistently, insisting that the right thing be done; now here I am. Circumstances have conspired [against] me to make me look so horrible that even any good thing that I’ve done is almost buried,” he bemoaned.