Battle rages over forged minutes

Latest information gathered by “The Crusading Guide” indicates that the former Presiding Member for Mfantseman District Assembly, John Kingsley Arhin has written a to remind the Deputy District Co-ordinating Director for Mfantseman, Atta-Ullah Dason to withdraw the entire contents of the 10 July 2002 District Tender Board minutes or face legal action.

A source close to the Assembly last week intimated to this paper that Atta-Ullah Dason had received the letter which was dated 11 March 2003 and copied to the Regional and District Co-ordinating Directors of Cape Coast and Mfantseman. The letter began by saying, “please refer to my letter dated 15 November 2002 captioned “Forged Minutes of 10 July 2002”.

Arhin, the author of the letter continued: “to date, you have failed to respond to my letter asking you to retract your forged minutes purported to have been recorded by you.” “You are once again reminded without any equivocation to withdraw the minutes of which you were quoted as the recorder and meant to cover up t he fraudulent award of some contracts in the District”, he underscored.

He warned further that failure to respond to the letter within two weeks shall compel him (Arhin) to address the issue at the law courts to expose him (Attah-Ullah) for his insincerity and to let the public know the type of civil servant he (Attah-Ullah) is. Meanwhile, the two weeks ultimatum has already elapsed.

When this paper reporter contacted Arhin, he confirmed being the author of the said letter. Pressed further to know whether there had been any reply to his letter, he (Arhin) answered in the negative, adding “I have given him another grace period.

Asked whether he (Arhin) would still pursue the case in the courts of Atta-Ullah apologised publicly to him, Arhin laughed for a while and said, “my brother, truth is light so it can never be hidden. I only want to establish the truth for the whole world to know that those minutes were forged to cover up some misdeeds”.