Appointees To Government Are Relatives And Friends - Essamuah

A dismissed member of the New Patriotic Party, Kakrah Essamuah, has described appointees to the present government as either relatives of the President, his tribesmen or members of a group in the NPP known as friends of J. A. Kufuor (FOJAK). He was reacting to an “Evening News” newspaper report that said he was trying to win favour from the President and is about to start work at the Presidency. Mr. Essamuah has however dismissed these reports and explained that he went to the Castle on July 20, this year, at the invitation of Mr. Amoako Tuffuor of the office of the President.

“He offered me a job in his outfit known as the Special Assignments Bureau. He did not tell me exactly what I would be doing in this outfit because I declined the offer.” Mr. Kakrah Essamuah noted that he finds it difficult to understand why the paper made such derogatory reports about him.

Mr. Essamuah who was highly critical of the NDC government was dismissed from the NPP in the run up to the December 2000 elections when he praised the NDC candidate Professor Mills and expressed the wish, then, that he won the elections. He noted that the NPP has not re-instated him, neither has he retracted his observations about Professor Mills for which he was dismissed.

Mr. Essamuah says the “Evening News” report was an attempt to set him up for public ridicule, contempt and disdain as part of the disinformation exercise it has been conducting for the NPP.