Kufuor's Toil Goes To Waste

--- FALLOUT OF SWOOP ON ILLEGAL OIL DEALERS
---AS JUDICIAL SYSTEM FRUSTRATES SECURITY AGENCIES

“Chronicle” follow-up efforts to pursue the outcome of the recent military cum police raids on six sites in Tema and its environs, where illegal oil deals have been going on, reveal a combination factors that seem to undermine the President’s initiative to curb corruption in the fuel sector.

These factors have been identified as poor handling of cases by investigators and prosecutors, which sometimes lead to the offenders being freed by the courts for lack of evidence.

Brigadier J. B. Danquah, Commanding Officer of the Southern Command of the Ghana Army, who spoke to “Chronicle”, expressed disappointment at the dramatic turn of events whereby some of the offenders have been set free in the face of damning evidence of criminality during the May 24 operations near the TOR and other places.

The paper recalls that a yard located between the Ashiaman and Motorway roundabout owned by one Nartey Asterix, two fully loaded long oil tankers, with registration numbers GR6709Q is and AS1547P, were parked in the yard and had no invoices or document covering them but managed to leave TOR premises unnoticed.

These tankers have allegedly been released to their owners, even in the face of the glaring fact that their contents were stolen.