FDB is a decoy for Mills' campaign fund raising

STATEMENT BY THE NDC YOUTH WITH CONVICTION OF PRINCIPLE(YWCP) REAGARDING RECENT
HAPPENINGS AT THE FDBMAY 30 2011Accra, Ghana
When reports broke that President Mills was planning to spend 90m Ghana cedes on
his desperate bid to cling on the NDC leadership at it’s primaries in Sunyani, many
people wondered where such colossal sums of monies could be coming from but it is
becoming clearer some of these sources. Over the past one week, there have been
reports revealing how a state institution such as the food and drugs board have been
used as a decoy to divert large sums of tax revenue for campaign purposes. The NDC
youth with conviction of principle (YWCP) have no doubts that much more money than
90Mgh is been sourced through different sources including hook and crooked means to
run his campaign.According to a new crusading guide report, a man named only as
Haissan was arrested by a combined team of personnel from the FDB, Ghana police
service and the Ghana revenue authority for hauling large quantities of food and
drugs into five secret warehouses in the country (some
of which warehouses are in Kumasi) without paying the requisite tariffs and duties
due government. Not long after his arrest, there are machinations to cover-up the
case and get Mr. Haissam Haroun off the hook. The question many are asking is why
officials of the FDB would be scheming to get this man off the hook of the law when
he has openly and clearly committed an offense that requires him to face the
law?NDC youth with conviction of principle (YWCP) investigations reveal that there
is a connection between the evasion of tariffs through the FDB and the 90m campaign
funds projected by President Mills. We found out that Dr. Stephen Opuni, the man at
the helm of affairs at the FDB, a close associate of Ato Ahwoi who is ‘shadow
president’ of Ghana is clearly aware and is part of these schemes to divert these
funds for the Atta Mills campaign purpose in Ashanti where Dr. Stephen Opuni is
facilitating the transfer of funds believed to be a part of the
90m gh budget. We even have reports Dr. Opuni as part of his desperate attempts
to satisfy Ato Ahwoi and president Mills his pay masters, engages in illegal
surgical operation at the accidents and burns unit of the KATH in Kumasi during
weekends where he charges huge sums of money and does not allow the usage of the
Health insurance by such patients- a practice which is against the laws of Ghana.
YWCP investigations also reveal that Dr. Stephen Opuni is afraid to be implicated
when this Haissam Haroun man is held to answer, thus, his attempt to cover up with
the help of his sponsors in the Mills team. According to our sources, this company
and many others have been donating their ‘tariffs and duties’ to the campaign funds
of G.A.M.E. Those whose thinking was that President Mills could not raise such
amount of money for his campaign can now understand the subtle methods been
employed by the G.A.M.E to by all means win a primary election in which Atta Mills
is obviously trailing in real opinion polls.YWCP decries the use such illegal ways
of acquiring campaign funds and especially when such funds are been used to corrupt
our democratic process as a party. We therefore call on Dr. Stephen Opuni to come
clean on this rot in the FDB. We also demand that the president Mill orders
immediate investigations into the illegal activities at the FDB
and bring Dr. Opuni to book with the same alacrity with which he requested an
investigation into the allegation of 90m GH for his campaign by Mr. Herbert Mensah,
a friend of the NDC founder Jerry Rawlings. The NDC youth with conviction of
principle also demand a stop to all these machinations by G.A.M.E to burn the will
of the NDC people at the July congress through money influence and calls for a
campaign free of undue influence as well as hook and crook means.Signed:John
VianneyNDC youth with conviction of principle (YWCP)0246632627