EASYLINK: The NPP Connection!

... And now, Ghana Link Network Services
... Relatives of President and Attorney-General involved
Further probing by Ghana Palaver has established that the owners and Directors of Easylink Urban Transport Services Limited are an admixtures of NPP big shots and front men. Using the tiny NPP majority in Parliament, they have had the law banning the importation of right-hand drive vehicles which has been on the statute books for over 28 years changed to enable them bring in the old, decrepit, over-aged double decker buses which they claim is the answer to Ghana's mass transportation problem.

To add insult to injury, it is the NPP Minister of Roads and Transport who in his discretion decides who to allow to bring in right-hand drive vehicles. The buses already on the roads were however brought in at a time when it was illegal to bring them in. Charles Randolph One of the shareholders and directors has been identified as Charles Randolph, a brother-in-law of Nana Akufo-Addo, the NPP's Attorney General, that is the brother of Nana Akufo-Addo's wife, Rebecca Randolph-Griffiths.

George Kufuor Another shareholder and Director is George Kufuor, who is in charge of Operations. George is the blood brother of President J. A. Kufuor, and ties the President in directly with the pressure that was exerted on the NPP Majority in Parliament to amend the law to enable the over-aged, right-hand drive vehicles to be imported into the country.

The amendment was passed on the last day of Parliament's sitting, alongside the scandalous "International Finance Consortium" loan. The former small-time, derelict inauspicious office of George Kufuor on the Ring Road next door to the Bus Stop Restaurant has since the NPP came into power been transformed into a plush, luxurious, first-class office with wall-to-wall carpeting and sporting a bank of over 10 computer stations. Also mentioned as closely connected with Easylink is the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, although this link has not been confirmed as yet. Flight-Lt. Joe Atiemo (rtd.), former Chief Executive of COCOBOD, is the Managing Director of Easylink.

He is believed to have put the original deal together but has proved elusive in the last three weeks that we have tried to reach him for his comments. Ghana Link Network Services From Ghana Palaver's intelligence sources comes the revelation that an addition to the Kufuor chain of Companies has surfaced in the entity of "Ghana Link Network Services Limited". Like its sister Company, the Easylink Urban Transport Services Limited, the file on Gold Link Network Services Limited is also allegedly missing from the records of the Registrar-General's Department.

Ghana Palaver has however established that Ghana Link Network Services Limited is registered as a Destination inspection Company and came into existence only on June 6, 2001, five months after the NPP came into power. However, the mother Company from which Ghana Link is supposed to derive its antecedents was established in Spain only in October 2001, three months after its baby, the Easylink, had already been born. Charles Randolph and George Kufuor, the owners of Easylink Limited, also own "Ghana Link".

Gold Link Travel and Tours Charles Randolph and George Kufuor are also the owners of yet another recently formed Company, Gold Link Travel and Tours Limited, which is operating in the tourism sector. Thus within the short period of the NPP's 18 months in office, these obviously front Companies have successfully established themselves in the transport, destination inspection and tourism sectors, with hints that this is only just the beginning of the Party's strategy to create a financial empire to back the "political empire" that the think they have created.