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Release
AFAG, October
16, 2012
NDC & CHINESE Co. IN ALL TIME CORRUPTION- PART 1
The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) is shocked at
the unconscionable act of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)
in milking and openly ripping the state of its scarce
resources with Huawei, a Chinese company which has been
involved in several international scandals.
Huawei Chinese Company is a Communications Company whose
operations, have been currently terminated in the USA,
Australia and India for security reasons. Additionally,
Algerian authorities in June this year banned the operations
of the company in Algeria following a bribery scandal which
involved the company and some executives of the State owned
telecom. In an attempt to deter other state officials, the
corrupt officials involved in this scandal had their property
confiscated, sentenced to 18 years imprisonment and find USD
64,000 each. Are there any lessons for Ghana in Her fight
against corruption?
Interestingly this company has been well received by the NDC
government without due regard to due diligence. Ladies &
gentlemen of the press, it is of interest to note that, two
public offices( National Security and Ministry of
Communication) have awarded two separate contracts to Huawei
both in line with telecommunication development in the
country. However, documents available to us, shows that,
Huawei has been complicit in some series of actions which
could be described as corrupt in Ghana.
Huawei Funding NDC in Ghana
Ladies and gentlemen, the political parties act; Act 574 is so
explicit on who can fund a political Party. Section 23(1) of
the Act states that, “only a citizen may contribute whether in
cash or in kind to the fund of a political party. Whilst
section 24 states that “A non-citizen shall not directly or
indirectly make a contribution or donation or loan whether in
cash or in kind to the funds held by or for the benefit of a
political party and no political party or person acting for or
on behalf of a political party shall demand or accept a
contribution donation or loan from a non-citizen”.
However, in flagrant disregard for the high laws of this
country, and together with the NDC, Huawei Chinese company:
• Have been
printing campaign paraphernalia (T-shirts, cups, key holders
etc) worth millions of USDs for the NDC. It has to be said
even after the death of president Mills, President John Mahama
continuously enjoy this facility.
• Have been financing air trips of some NDC Government
officials and their family (including Dr.Cadman Mills, the
brother and economic advisor of our late President).
REWARDS FOR FUNDING THE NDC
Following this immoral gesture by the Huawei, group, the NDC
government in a reciprocal gesture awarded the Huawei group
what could arguably go down as one of the juiciest contracts
to be doled out by the current NDC government.
To place on record, the NDC government on 15th December, 2011
awarded the Huawei group the E-Government platform Project
worth a whooping USD127, 500,000 million.
CONTRAVENTION OF THE ACT
Ladies and gentlemen, we quote the relevant portions of the
contravention of the political parties Act; “25.
(1) where any
person contravenes section 23 or 24, in addition to any
penalty that may be imposed under this Act, any amount whether
in cash or in kind paid in contravention of the section shall
be forfeited to the State and the amount shall be recovered
from the political party as debt owed to the State. The
political party or person in whose custody the amount is for
the time being held shall pay it to the State.
(2) A non-citizen found guilty of contravention of section 24
shall be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant and liable to
deportation under the Aliens Act, 1963 (Act 160)”.
AFAG’S POSITION
In view of this
blatant disregard of the law, we hold the following;
• We find as very insulting the GH¢ 1 which was paid by Huawei
as taxes on the contract.
• The immediate deportation of officials of Huawei for the
violation of the political party law.
• The NDC should as soon as possible address the unresolved
issue of the 20,000,000M dollars headquarters which according
to our intelligence was financed by a Chinese company.
• AFAG will proceed to the police to formally lodge a
complaint for further investigations into this criminal act.
• Since political parties are public entities, AFAG, is
calling on the EC to publish the annual report of the NDC to
ascertain whether these donations have ever been reported.
Ladies and gentlemen, until these standing issues are
addressed, AFAG will not rest.
Thank you.
Signed
Davis Opoku Ansah
Henry Haruna Asante
Arnold Boateng
Bright Acheampong
Dr. Nana Ayew Afriye
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