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The vociferous Member of Parliament (MP) for Asikuma-Odobeng-Brakwa, Paul Collins Appiah-Ofori says he intends to meet with President John Mills to push for the implementation of recommendations on the sale of Ghana Telecom to Vodafone.
In 2008, the Kufuor government sold 70 percent of the state's stake in Ghana Telecom to British telecoms giant, Vodafone.
The sale was preceded by heated public debates. In the heat of the debates, then candidate Mills promised to probe the sale if he was elected president in the 2008 election.
In 2009 after taking office, the NDC set up a ministerial committee to look into the deal.
P.C. Appiah-Ofori who vehemently opposed the sale and subsequently called for investigations into the sale, is unhappy that the recommendations made by the ministerial committee are yet to be implemented.
The anti-corruption campaigner, who accused his colleague NPP MPs of receiving bribes to pass the sale deal, says he intends to personally see the president to ask him to implement the recommendations.
He maintained that the sale was wrong.
“When we lost the election I made a case for Atta Mills to have a look at it because the whole transaction was wrong and indeed Atta Mills listened to me and set up a committee to look into it and the committee came out with a recommendation based on my observation.
“Regrettably Prof Atta Mills has not implemented the recommendation made by the committee and as I am talking to you now the wrong things are still persisting.
“I have decided that when we resume I will book an appointment to go and see him face-to-face,” he said.
Mr. Appiah-Ofori also cautioned members of his party, the NPP, to eschew the divisions that cost them the 2008 elections.
The controversial MP said the country had been messed up by the NDC government and needed to be salvaged.
“All of us should work hard and make sure that NPP returns to power to make life worthy of living for the people of this country as against the mess in which Ghanaians find themselves today,” he stated.
The MP said some individuals worked against the collective interest of the party after the very contentious and acrimonious primaries in December 2007 that elected Nana Akufo-Addo as the party’s flag-bearer for the 2008 elections, adding “such blunders, such irresponsible acts on the part of some of us should cease.”
Source: Joy News/Ghana
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