Mahama receives General Gowon and Jeffrey Sachs

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TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

The U.S Bureau of Prisons has stated that ex-Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza North, Eric Amoateng, who is currently doing time in CI Moshannon Valley prison in the USA, for trafficking 136 pounds of heroin, valued at o ...
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The U.S Bureau of Prisons has stated that ex-Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza North, Eric Amoateng, who is currently doing time in CI Moshannon Valley prison in the USA, for trafficking 136 pounds of heroin, valued at over $5 million, would be released on July 30, 2014.

Judge David G. Tragger, delivered the judgment on December 12, 2007 and sentenced the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ex-MP to a 10-year jail term.

The MP was arrested on December 11, 2005 in the U.S.

Two years ago, ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor thwarted investigations by the Narcotic Controls Board (NACOB) into the assets of Eric Amoateng and Nii Okai Adjei, his accomplice, for the purposes of confiscating them to the state in accordance with PNDC law 236.

Eight months into the administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, assets investigations on Eric Amoateng and Nii Okai Adjei have not been concluded, let alone going through the tortuous journey of confiscating them through the court. The terms of reference of the investigations for NACOB included identifying properties of both Eric Amoateng and Nii Okai Adjei who were imprisoned in respect of the heroine.

The investigations, which were earnestly begun by NACOB, were halted by President John Kufuor when he appointed a Minister, who was questioned by NACOB investigators in respect of the arrest of Amoateng, to head the Interior Ministry which supervised NACOB.

Before the investigations were halted, a NACOB report had already located the assets of Nii Okai Adjei, and had indicated that they intended to investigate the assets of Eric Amoateng.

An initial report from NACOB stated that: “So far, three residential properties have been identified to be belonging to Nii Okai Adjei. They are located in Teshie Nungua catchment area. Efforts are being made to travel to Nkoranza to conduct assets investigations on Eric Amoateng. After the identification and location, Narcotic Control Board intends to pursue the assets for confiscation in accordance with PNDC Law 236.”

Nii Okai Adjei, who has already served his prison term, has returned to Ghana to enjoy his properties. Follow-up investigations by NACOB on possible accomplices in Ghana, led them to question a former sitting minister of the previous government, regarding his association with a certain George Owusu, a name which kept coming up in their investigations.

The NACOB investigations had revealed that, that George Owusu, had direct dealings with Eric Amoateng in the drug trade. It emerged that NACOB, following intelligence, interrogated a certain George Owusu, who had shipped ceramics from the US to a foundation established by the said minister.

NACOB, suspected that the George Owusu man could be the one who shipped the heroin on behalf of Amoateng. Before the assets investigations could be concluded, former President Kufuor announced that the minister, who had been officially questioned by Narcotic Board investigators in respect of the Amoateng case, much to his displeasure, had been appointed as the Minister of Interior.

Narcotic Control Board is under the Ministry of Interior.

The investigations into assets were therefore abandoned and the government has since then ended the journey to continue the process of investigations and confiscation of the property of both Eric Amoateng and Nii Okai Adjei.

Not long after the Minister took office, the Interior Ministry announced that five kilos of cocaine in the custody of NACOB being part of the 30kilos seized from the MV Benjamin was missing. The casualties of the missing cocaine incidentally were the officers involved in questioning the Minister in respect of the Amoateng probe.

They were asked to go on leave to pave way for investigations.

Three years on the officers have still not been recalled to office though no report on the missing cocaine has seen the light of the day. Eight months into the NDC government’s administration, the officers are still at home, whist investigations into the assets of both Nii Okai and Eric Amoateng have not been done.

The NDC had insisted on a proper investigation into the Amoateng case.

Source: The Enquirer

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NYARKO U.S. 11 years ago

Terribly Specific, you make sense somme times but behave like a bad boy sometimes.
JOB well done mr. Specific

Terribly Specific, you make sense somme times but behave like a bad boy sometimes.
JOB well done mr. Specific
NOKWARE 11 years ago

NPP is a drug racketeering party.It is good they lost the elections to save the nation from international isolation and disgrace.Ghana was on the same levl as Equatorial Guinea in terms of drug trafficking when Kuffuor's NPP ...
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NPP is a drug racketeering party.It is good they lost the elections to save the nation from international isolation and disgrace.Ghana was on the same levl as Equatorial Guinea in terms of drug trafficking when Kuffuor's NPP government was in power.
HELL FIRE 11 years ago

IF NPP IS FULL OF DRUG TRAFFICKERS,WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT NDC? NOKWARE? FULL OF SHIT BOMBERS, STEALLERS, JUDGES AND ARMY OFFICERS KILLERS.

IF NPP IS FULL OF DRUG TRAFFICKERS,WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT NDC? NOKWARE? FULL OF SHIT BOMBERS, STEALLERS, JUDGES AND ARMY OFFICERS KILLERS.
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

JEFFREY SACHS IS AN INTELLIGENT CAT.

JEFFREY SACHS IS AN INTELLIGENT CAT.
insight to the bone 11 years ago

Ndc is now continuing to shoot itself in the other leg, not only have they succeeded in eroding the trust and confidence of the majority of their own supporters with the corruption and looting but also with their ongoing stup ...
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Ndc is now continuing to shoot itself in the other leg, not only have they succeeded in eroding the trust and confidence of the majority of their own supporters with the corruption and looting but also with their ongoing stupidity at the supreme court led by ayigbe idiot fool kwaseaba tsikata. Everybody knows their structures and various interest groups within the party especially the ayigbe are so diabolically evil and and anti developmental that if even archangel Michael led them they would still fail in every positive undertaking. the incompetence is not only destructive but will put a yolk on our necks we shall not be free of in the next 100 years. it took the Akans over 100 years to prepare and gain independence and they allowed the brits to saddle them with another group the ewes who were not on that level and never will be of social consciousness and developmental readiness so no matter what you do they are always in the shadows undermining every effort from the time of kotoka through to rawlings and now . how many genuine projects are being sabotaged and rubbished everyday , yesterday pepeni comes and says we should pay more for energy because of his deal with general electric and the kickback bribe he is taking instead of telling the people the truth that we could actually be paying less for energy than what we pay today . it is the agenda of this evil alliance to push us further into poverty so our people forget any dream of a standard of the 21st century . pepeni continue and you will soon have war
HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 11 years ago

HE WILL COME AND CONTINUE THE SAME WAY. HE WAS EVEN LUCKY NPP WAS NOT IN POWER, THAT WILL LET HIM THINK TWICE FOR NOT TRYING IT AGAIN. BECAUSE HI PARTY IS NOT IN POWER. WE ALL NEED HIM BACK HOME WHATEVER POLITICAL DIFFERENT W ...
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HE WILL COME AND CONTINUE THE SAME WAY. HE WAS EVEN LUCKY NPP WAS NOT IN POWER, THAT WILL LET HIM THINK TWICE FOR NOT TRYING IT AGAIN. BECAUSE HI PARTY IS NOT IN POWER. WE ALL NEED HIM BACK HOME WHATEVER POLITICAL DIFFERENT WE BELIEVE IN, HE IS OUR BROTHER FATHER UNCLE AND SON.
BIG - JOE -moscow/kharkov/minsk 11 years ago

GIABA ....Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa .....with headquaters in Abuja.General Gowon as a Member ?
Obasanjo as Chairman... Kersire Oudrago as President .... Kwasi Ahwoi as kick bac ...
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GIABA ....Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa .....with headquaters in Abuja.General Gowon as a Member ?
Obasanjo as Chairman... Kersire Oudrago as President .... Kwasi Ahwoi as kick backer .... all these leaders
are scammers , blood suckers ,thieves
BIG - JOE -moscow/kharkov/minsk 11 years ago

GIABA ....Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa .....with headquaters in Abuja.General Gowon as a Member ?
Obasanjo as Chairman... Kersire Oudrago as President .... Kwasi Ahwoi as kick backe ...
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GIABA ....Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa .....with headquaters in Abuja.General Gowon as a Member ?
Obasanjo as Chairman... Kersire Oudrago as President .... Kwasi Ahwoi as kick backer .... all these leaders
are scammers , blood suckers ,thieves
United NATIONS AGAINST DRUGS AND CRIME
hahahaha.... who ships drugs pass executive members of UNODC and GIABA all in the name of ECOWAS ?
Does these cyber theft criminals own not OFF SHORE BANK ACCOUNTS ??/
THey survives by robbing and confiscating investors fund to promte buinessess in Wesdt AFRICA . .. bLODD SUCKERS ,... WORST THAN DEMONS
Tibaa 11 years ago

Jeffery Sachs must not be trusted. He is a politico-economic prostitute whose moribund classical macro-economic theories based on unfettered markret forces are anti-thetical to need-based, people-centered perspectives of deve ...
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Jeffery Sachs must not be trusted. He is a politico-economic prostitute whose moribund classical macro-economic theories based on unfettered markret forces are anti-thetical to need-based, people-centered perspectives of development essential to growth that impinges on the bread and butter worries of Ghanaians.
Wikileaks 11 years ago

Jeffrey Sachs....go home ...!!
We don;t need you fucking Democrat.
Corrupt Democrat...if the Taliban was here ...They would kick your fucking ass

Jeffrey Sachs....go home ...!!
We don;t need you fucking Democrat.
Corrupt Democrat...if the Taliban was here ...They would kick your fucking ass
ASANTEWA 11 years ago

MAHAMA. HOW much MONEY have got in UK/USA/S.AFRICA/S.AMERICA etc

MAHAMA. HOW much MONEY have got in UK/USA/S.AFRICA/S.AMERICA etc
Zinger 11 years ago

Nigerian criminals and Murderers like, bad Luck, Obasanjo and Gowon and now feeding on our resources!

Nigerian criminals and Murderers like, bad Luck, Obasanjo and Gowon and now feeding on our resources!
Yaa 11 years ago

The communications experts at the Presidency, led by Mr Plessident John Mahameho, tell us that the discussions between the Plessident and General Gowon "centred on fighting the menace of anti money laundering in the subregion ...
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The communications experts at the Presidency, led by Mr Plessident John Mahameho, tell us that the discussions between the Plessident and General Gowon "centred on fighting the menace of anti money laundering in the subregion".

Eh? You say what? Ooohhhhh, we see. Abi you dey fight anti-narcotics people, na so? What a Freudian slip!
Mr. QUESTIONS 11 years ago

DOES THE PRESIDENT REALLY CARE ABOUT
Prof. Sachs and what he is doing in Ghana ?

Does he have the opportunity to steal any money through this project for his own pocket or for the NDC ?

Uhhhh ..... what the heck !!

DOES THE PRESIDENT REALLY CARE ABOUT
Prof. Sachs and what he is doing in Ghana ?

Does he have the opportunity to steal any money through this project for his own pocket or for the NDC ?

Uhhhh ..... what the heck !!
Benjamin 11 years ago

NYARKO U.S., NO DIFFERENT FROM TerriblY Spe cifiC

NYARKO U.S., NO DIFFERENT FROM TerriblY Spe cifiC
OPPONG 11 years ago

MAHAMA DI WO HENE. EFATAWO. DI WO HENE.
NANA BESU MAAMA, EDE BE KEKE.

MAHAMA DI WO HENE. EFATAWO. DI WO HENE.
NANA BESU MAAMA, EDE BE KEKE.
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I think Gen. Gowon's name is prominent in the heading of this article. But what happened, his picture is absent and that of Professor Jeffrey Sachs, sitting with President Mahama, is shown.

I don't understand this kind of ...
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I think Gen. Gowon's name is prominent in the heading of this article. But what happened, his picture is absent and that of Professor Jeffrey Sachs, sitting with President Mahama, is shown.

I don't understand this kind of journalism. What does it seek to achieve? Or was it a mistake?

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