Govt To Prosecute TMA Officials

Some officials of the Tema Municipal Assembly (TMA) are to be prosecuted for engaging in financial malpractices. According to the Minister of Information, Nana Akomea investigations into certain activities at the TMA had been completed and would soon be put before the courts.

Mr Akomea said this in Accra when he addressed the Media at the weekly briefing sessions. He also reacted to accusations levelled against the government by Professor John Evans Atta Mills, NDC Flag bearer, recently.

He said a number of cases, apart from that of the TMA were outstanding at the Attorney -General's Office due to lack of enough Attorneys at the Department.

Nana Akomea referred to the 15 accusations Professor Mills listed against the Government and said they were of no substance and should not come from someone like Professor Mills.

He said Prof Mills' assertion that the Government was only quick to prosecute malfeasance committed by NDC officials could not be the true picture.

"Indeed, the first quick prosecution by this Government was against a sitting Minister in this Government," he said, referring to the Mallam Issa case.

He said the government had been more open than the NDC, citing the government’s Tuesday and Thursday briefings where Ministers appeared and threw light on issues and opened themselves up for scrutiny. "At least two Ministers of State - the Ministers of Education and Defence have come to open themselves up before you to talk and be questioned on media allegations of wrongdoing.

"This never happened in all of eight years of NDC Government, " he said.

The Information Minister also noted that the President had twice met and opened himself up to direct questioning, a practice which he said never happened under the NDC, and asked Prof Mills to go back to history.