Apraku denies NDC allegations

Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, NPP Member of Parliament for Offinso and Minority Spokesman for Finance, has reacted to the false allegations, lies and the misinformation campaign orchestrated against him by President Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings for political purposes, the Statesman reports.

In a statement issued to the press, Dr Apraku referred to a November 27 story carried by The Pioneer in which Mrs Rawlings claimed he was brought over from the United States to Ghana by the PNDC in 1987 and subsequently dismissed for non-performance.

He dismissed the claim as, "absolutely baseless and without an iota of truth," explaining that he returned to Ghana in 1991 and not in 1987 and his travel here was financed by the International Office of Migration (IOM), a United Nations agency set up to facilitate the return of "high professionals" to their home countries.

He furthered that no contact whatsoever was made with anybody in the PNDC at the time of his application to the Ministry of Agriculture for the position of Deputy Director for Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation.

He said President Rawlings' claim that he was fired from the Ministry was similarly untrue as he was denied the advertised post he applied from abroad and rather appointed Head of Policy Analysis and Evaluation.

That position was far below his training and coupled with the bureaucracies and the slow pace of work in the ministry, he was convinced that he did not belong to the sector, the paper said.