Less than forty-eight hours after accusing officials of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of amassing great wealth in a few years in office, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, one time flag bearer aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is running wildly away from his own comments. On Wednesday, he flatly denied saying that some officials of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) have acquired as many as 22, 18, and ten houses since coming to office! Rather, Dr. Spio-Garbrah said he made those comments in relation to the officials of the Progress Party (PP) government who went out of office thirty years ago! To make matters worse, Dr. Spio-Garbrah even denies granting an interview to Joy FM in Accra, an interview that was copiously broadcast on Tuesday and has since been reproduced on the station's website, myjoyonline as well as in the Chronicle newspaper! Until our interview Wednesday, Dr. Spio-Garbrah had not protested at the wide circulation of the attributions he describes as untrue. Speaking to The Daily Searchlight Wednesday, twenty-four hours after his 'chopocratic, cleptocratic and cocainocracy' government statements against members of the ruling NPP government, Dr. Spio-Garbrah said that he has no proof of corruption against any member of the NPP government, contrary to his allegations that he had been told by some Nigerian friends that officials of the NPP government were very corrupt! To make matters worse, he said that it was not his responsibility to investigate corruption. Dr. Spio-Garbrah, a former Communications Minister and currently serving in the United Kingdom as the Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization, was speaking to this newspaper as a follow-up to allegations he had made that officials of the NPP had acquired many properties whilst some Nigerian friends had told him that inducements were demanded from them in the course of doing business in Ghana. Confronted to add some proof to his allegations Wednesday, Dr Spio-Garbrah began by consistently refuting the suggestion that he had an interview with Joy FM on Tuesday. "I listened to your interview on Joy the other day," we said. "I have not been on Joy," Spio-Garbrah replied. "Your interview on Joy FM," we replied. "I don't think I have granted any interview to Joy," he said. "Joy FM in Accra," we said. "Yes, and I don't think I have granted any interview to Joy FM in Accra," he replied. Asked about his assertion that officials of the NPP have acquired as much 20, 18 and 10 houses, since coming to office, unlike Professor John Evans Atta Mills who did not acquire any properties whilst in office, Dr. Spio-Garbrah denied making that allegation in connection to officials of the NPP. "That was the Progress Party which was in office between 1969 and 72, the one in which Agyekum Kufuor was a Deputy Minister, that was the government in which people acquired … I spoke about the 1969 to 1972 Progress Party Government in which President Kufuor was Deputy Foreign Minister," he said. We again pointed out to him that all write-ups and his interview indicated that his reference was about NPP officials. "I never said that. I have not said that. I said I have not even granted Joy FM an interview, so if they pick the story from somewhere and misrepresented it then they have to answer for this," he said. Asked again if he was not referring to the NPP government, Dr. Spio-Garbrah replied, "Not at all. That was not what I was talking about." "But with specific reference to the 22 houses, and 18 houses you were talking about the PP government?" We asked. “Yes, and I said that these were the NPP's forebears or ancestors. I was not talking about the NPP Government officials," he said. On whether he followed through on any of the allegations made by his alleged Nigerian friends that current government officials were corrupt, he said that it was not his responsibility to investigate allegations of corruption, and that was the job of journalists, and state investigators from the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Commission for Human Rights and administrative Justice (CHRAJ). (Listen to the attached audio for what Dr. Spio-Garbrah said.) Source: The Daily Searchlight