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Press Release
NPP
December 18, 2015
REPORT AND FINDINGS OF
COMMITTEE ON OPERATIONS OF NPP BANK ACCOUNTS
On August 19, 2015, the National Executive Committee of the
New Patriotic Party set up a committee to investigate
allegations bordering on the setting up of a secret,
unauthorised bank account; as well as unauthorised
disbursements, including a payment of £100,000 (One hundred
thousand pounds sterling) to the NPP flagbearer, from that
account.
The committee, whose membership comprised of Nana Ohene Ntow,
Hon. Joe Osei Wusu, Hon. Anthony Akoto Osei, Hon. Kwaku
Agyeman Manu and Prof. Gyan Baffour, was inaugurated on
August 25, 2015.
The committee’s terms of reference were:
1. to establish the bank accounts into which party funds had
been lodged;
2. to determine disbursements made out of the accounts and
the purpose for those disbursements;
3. to establish the approvals for those disbursements; and
4. to investigate other related matters.
The committee,over a period of fifteen (15) sitting days,
interviewed thirteen (13) witnesses. They included Nana
Akufo-Addo, 2016 flagbearer; Paul Afoko, then National
Chairman;Freddie Blay, then 1st National First vice
Chairman; Sammy Crabbe, then National 2nd vice Chairman;
Kwabena Agyepong, then General Secretary; Kwabena Abankwah
Yeboah, National Treasurer; John Boadu, National Organiser;
Hon. Daniel Botwe, Minority Chief Whip; Fred Oware,
immediate past 1st Vice National Chairman; Esther Ofori,
immediate past National Treasurer; Gifty Ama Ayeh, past
Treasurer; Dr. K.K Sarpong, a representative of NPP finance
committee; and Mr. Baah Achamfuor, a member of the party.
A majority report was first submitted by Hon. Joe Osei Wusu,
Hon. Anthony Akoto Osei, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman Manu and Prof.
Gyan Baffour on November 19; whilst a minority report,
authored by Nana Ohene Ntow, was submitted December 16,
2015.
FINDINGS
Both reports of the committee unanimously found, inter alia,
that:
1) There was no setting up and operation of a secret
account. The account in question at the Ecobank Trust Towers
account was not a secret account but a party account,
albeitdormant.
2) The reactivation of the account was, however, done
without all the necessary consultations and information at
the National Executive level.
3) The committee found that disbursements made from the
Ecobankaccount were done pursuant to the budget drawn up and
approved for the by-election in Talensi.
4) The committee found there was no truth in the allegation
of disbursement of £100,000 from any NPP account to the 2016
flagbearer.
The minority report arose out of the decision by Nana Ohene
Ntow to make supplementary recommendations to which the
other four members of the committee strongly objected on the
grounds that they were either not within the committee’s
terms of reference or warranted by the evidence before the
committee.
The National Executive Committee authorised this release to
inform the general public about the outcome of the
committee’s work.
……signed……
Nana Akomea
Director of Communications
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