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The Deputy Minister of Energy and MP for Ellembelle, Emmanuel Kofi Buah is accusing the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) and its Executive Secretary of doing a shoddy job in its latest monitoring report on political activities in the country between May and June this year.The GII in the report released, Thursday accused government of abusing incumbency to its political advantage.Executive Director of GII, Vitus Azeem named the Deputy Energy Minister, Information Minister, Fritz Bafour as well as the Eastern Region Minister Victor Smith as the worse culprits.Azeem claimed Buah had used a public event funded with the tax payers’ money to campaign ahead of the December elections.In a 27 May, 2012 event held in Ellembelle to hand over a community shed to residents, the MP is accused of using the event to campaign for votes.GII claims the community shed was funded with the MPs Common Fund for which reason the MP ought not to have turned the event into a political campaign platform.The MP is reported by the GII as having promised to build a Junior High School if retained in office.The GII report appears to have angered the the Deputy Minister of Energy.Kofi Buah in an interview with Joy News insisted the community shed which the GII cited as an example of abuse of incumbency was never funded with the Common Fund.He said the project was funded with help of his partners, a fact the GII would have availed itself with if they had checked from the Assembly before publicizing a report as important as this.He impugned the integrity of the Executive Secretary of GII who he accused of “masquerading” as a person doing public service and yet perpetrating his own political agenda.He said Vitus Azeem must apologise for doing a shoddy job, insisting he did nothing wrong by commissioning a community shed residents he had funded not with the Common Fund.Kofi Buah explained issues about abuse of incumbency cannot always be checked because he cannot control the type of shirts residents wear to a programme.But Vitus Azeem insisted the GII had its facts right, insisting the facts about Mr Buah’s abuse of incumbency are incontrovertible.
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