PRESIDENT MAHAMA IS PAYING LIP-SERVICE TO FIGHTING CORRUPTION!

A PRESS RELEASE BY UNITED FOR CHANGE MOVEMENT.
                   While many Ghanaians were enamored with the decision by the then Mills/Mahama administration to bring absolute sunshine to the Woyome saga, it was widely presumed that not only would Alfred Agbesi Woyome be the focus but all the other actors who played major roles in ensuring Ghana losing millions of cedis in a scam whose magnitude was so monumental it sent trepidations down the wobble spines of thousands of Ghanaians. However, Ghanaians are now filled with speechless anxiety at the new turn of events.
To say Ghanaians are saddened by the verdict resulting out of months of prosecution of Alfred Agbesi Woyome's criminal case is an understatement. In fact, we feel scandalized by the manner in which the case was handled since its inception! It would be a solace to the good people of Ghana if the matter had been brought to its logical conclusion, but the rather strange events which surrounded the whole trial leave us with no other option but to conclude that the whole attempted prosecution was cunningly orchestrated to create the impression that President Mahama was committed to rooting out corruption from his government, when the evidence on the ground goes contrary to that perception.
Ghanaians were startled to the bone when it surfaced that Mrs.Betty Mould Iddrisu, the Attorney General, in close cahoots with her deputy, Ebo Barton-Oduro, despite their expertise and long service in the legal field, saw it quite expedient to pay Alfred Woyome with questionable documents, for services he claimed he had rendered to the nation during the erstwhile John Agyekum Kufuor led-NPP administration. It is instructive to note that Mr.Woyome didn't see the need to present the same documents to the previous administration to make those claims, and one only wonders what informed the decision by Mr. Woyome to spring up from his slumber to make those claims when the NDC came to office. This singular reason makes the whole deal a bizarre one.
What beats our imaginations is the fact that Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu and her allies went ahead to pay more than the stipulated amount to Mr. Woyome after he had secured a default judgment from the court. We were spellbound a few weeks later when the same Attorney General claimed that Woyome had been paid on false pretenses, so he had to refund the whole amount with interest, a directive Woyome failed to comply with. The following people also were very instrumental in the fraudulent judgment debt paid to Mr. Woyome; Dr. Kwabena Dufuor, Nii Quaye-Tetteh, a lawyer at the ministry of finance and Paul Asemani, a state attorney. What roles did these people play in the just ended Woyome trial? Their involvements in the saga were glaringly clear, but their contributions towards bringing a finality to this shady Woyome deal were very negligible.
United for Change Movement is of the sound opinion that this case could have been dealt with if
1. Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu and Ebo Barton-Oduro had been joined in the suit against Alfred Woyome by the state.
2. The Attorney General, Maritha Brew was not directly involved in the prosecution of the case since her law firm was a beneficiary in
the judgment debt.
3. Government hadn't forced the AG to skip the involvement of Betty and Barton-Oduro.
We are more than certain that there was a great conspiracy by the current government and Alfred Woyome to clothe Mrs. Betty-Mould Iddrisu and Mr. Ebo Barton-Oduro from facing the full rigors of the law. These two gurus of the ruling NDC are being shielded from the gallows by the Mahama administration. This, we firmly believe, would be politically disastrous for the government should the two be made to answer for their roles in the whole Woyome debacle.
It only stands to reason that the president's mantra of fighting corruption is in sharp conflict with what pans out on the ground, rTas the prosecution of Alfred Agbesi Woyome's fraudulent judgment debt debacle clearly exemplifies.
Maritha Brew, the Attorney General, hitherto, worked for Waterville in this same Woyome/Waterville judgment debt saga, so how do we expect her to honesty prosecute a matter whose final result might adversely impact on her services rendered to Waterville?
United for Change Movement is disturbed by the growing levels of complaints from judges apropos the various cases the AGo's department is prosecuting involving public officials accused of indulging in corrupt acts against the state. According to the judges, prosecutors at the AG's department have been doing shoddy jobs in their works. We are convinced, the SADA and GYEEDA ongoing cases, with sad inevitability, will not yield the results Ghanaians hope to see due to the feet-dragging antics the AG's department is engaging in. Spasms of anguish gallop through our systems when we think about the likely outcomes from cases pending at the law courts.
We make these demands;
1. Mrs. Betty-Mould Iddrisu and Ebo Barton-Oduro should be immediately arraigned before the court togbe answer for the charges of wilfully causing financial loss to the state.
2. Maritha Brew's competence as Attorney General leaves much to be desired. She should be changed.
3. Lawyers at the Attorney General's department should be adequately resourced to carry out the works assigned to them.
4. The decision by the AG to file for appeal with regards to the expectant verdict from Woyome's criminal case is nothing but a complete waste of valuable time and resources. It should therefore be shelved.
5. President Mahama and his administration should stop shielding corrupt appointees in cases of this nature.
United for Change Movement contends that for President Mahama's much touted war against corruption to yield any result worth clapping for, the administration should have snatched at the opportunity presented by the Woyome case to send the message across to the world that it is truly committed to fighting the menace posed by corruption.
Government's attempted corruption war finds itself in some sombre shadowy world impossible for Ghanaians to comprehend, simply because, nothing productive has been realized from this all important pledge from President Mahama.
Until the afore-mentioned demands are met by the Mahama/Amissah-Arthur administration, United for Change Movement would take any statement from the presidency aimed at reminding Ghanaians of its resolve to battling with corruption in the public sector with a pinch of salt. The president must stop paying lip-services to fighting corruption.
Signed by:
1. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMANN
+447950318943/+447534455242
2. MR. KWADWO ANIM
024765115
3. P.K.SARPONG
0248889263/0205667121
4. JAMALUDEEN A. ABDULLAH
0246198919/0503274763
5. KATE PRATT
+447912365690.

GOVERNMENT ABANDONS GHANAIANS UNDER ECONOMIC SERVITUDE.

A PRESS RELEASE BY UNITED FOR CHANGE MOVEMENT: TO ALL MEDIA  HOUSE.

Ghana, over the past two decades, has done fairly well in its democratization agenda. The country has evolved into a stable and mature force, democratically, making it the envy of its West African neighbours and beyond. The same, however, cannot be said of the strides it has made economically.

The country has performed abyssmally since the National Democratic Congress was mandated to steer the country's affairs since 2009. The country has faced significant macroeconomic hurdles spanning from 2009 to 2014, with 2015 promising to be far worse than the preceding ones. Ghana is faced with large-twin deficits, worsening government public debt and inflation, a steeper than valley depreciation of the cedi against major trading currencies, and a much weaker pace of the country's overall economic growth.

United for Change Movement would like to use this medium to highlight what the current government hasn't done well and their negative impacts to the general public.

The cedi has depreciated against the dollar for a whopping 35%, and close to 40% to the Pound Sterling. This impacted adversely on imports and exports, with prices of goods going up astronomically.

The uphill movement of Ghana's internal and external debts leave a great deal to be desired. With a total debt of 70% to the country's GDP, any administration worth its salt would take steps necessary to stem the worrying trend. Apart from its own failure to ensure the so-called home grown policies to materialize to address these economic bottlenecks, the Mahama administration and its predecessor treated the otherwise 'worth considering' diagnosis and prognosis proffered by known, yet, tried and tested economists with open contempt. Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia would not be spared by government communicators for predicting Ghana was heading towards disastrous consequences as a result of the reckless borrowing and some vodoo economic theories being practised by the Mahama/Amissah-Arthur led-administration. He predicted Ghana would run to the IMF for a possible policy credibility and a bailout. This was vehemently denied by government. He also predicted the cedi could fall as high as 40% if the fundamentals of the economy were not addressed. Needless for us to remind Ghanaians these predictions have truly but sadly come to fruition.
Sight must not be lost of the fact that per the standards of the IMF, low income economies whose debt ratio to GDP exceeds 60% face serious risks of falling into a deeper economic gulley. In the light of this, Ghana has been there since last year because ours far more outweighs the 60% prescribed by the IMF. Ghana, under the NDC, has contracted loans to the tune of $27 billion, close to ¢80 billion. This recklessness, coupled with the fact  that government has been competing with the private sector for cash from local financial institutions has sapped the energy needed to project the country to greater heights. The economy, in effect, has contracted, no wonder our growth rates year in, year out, have been taking downhill directions. Without oil, Ghana's GDP rate in 2008 grew at 8.4%, but with oil, we recorded paltry figures of 7.9% and 7.4% in 2012 and 2013 respectively. If this isn't a gory sight, we wonder what else it is. The country missed the growth rate target in 2014, and the IMF has reversed downwards the targeted growth rate for 2015 to below-average 3.5%!

Looking at these figures, United for Change Movement can say without any fear of contradiction that Ghana is doomed economically, and its independence is at best, theoretical, since the government of the day could not generate ideas from its household but had to force a smile at the IMF for policy credibility and bailout!

In accordance with Article 179 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, the finance minister, on behalf of the president, read the budget statement to Ghanaians. Listening attentively to it, and delving deeper into the targets, figures and projections into the future, United for Change Movement can sadly but successfully conclude that the medium to long-term prospects of the country are only wishful thinkings! The theme for the budget, "Transformational Agenda; Securing the bright medium term prospects of the economy", one gets the unbiased and unfettered impression that there is a wider hole between the theme and the steps the budget highlights would be used to arrest the wailing economy. The projections, it doesn't require the exceptional qualities of a genius to ascertain,are not in tandem with the realities on the ground. This informed the IMF to peg our growth rate at 3.5% instead of what government projected.

Ladies and gentlemen, United for Change Movement is of the view that, the depreciating Ghana cedi, and mounting public debt as a direct culmination of government's excessive and reckless borrowing, and extremely disappointing growth in all sectors of the economy, largely give testament to the fact that the ship is sinking deeply into the bottomless pit of the sea, and must be rescued. To this end, United for Change Movement is calling on Ghanaians to be in red and black attires to signify our displeasure at how abyssmal the economy is being handled,  and that we are sick and tired of government appointees always drumming into our ears that the Mahama administrstion recognizes the challenges we are facing since it isn't soothing enough to our tired brows, for we believe in action more than words. Thank you.

SIGNED:
MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447950318943
MR. KWADJO ANIM : +233247651154
P.K SARPONG : 024 888 9263
JAMALUDEEN A. ABDULLAH : 0246198919
KATTE  PRATT: +44 7912 365690

United For Change Movement Endorses The Planned Demonstration By Movement For Change

 
United for Change Movement, a week ago, released a strong statement, backing the NPP's planned demonstration which eventually and successfully came off last week.

We would first of all congratulate the New Patriotic Party for its ability to bring such and unprecedented number of Ghanaians together to express their displeasure, in the strongest of terms, at government's failure to arrest our worsening power crisis. To the leadership of the NPP, we say "Thank You" for showing the way.

Despite the successful organization of the NPP's demonstration, there are still a lot to be done. Instead of acknowledging the concerns raised by the NPP in their demonstration, the ruling party chose to ridicule the whole programme with a press conference which sought to repeat the litany of responses government has been drumming into our ears over the past three years, action plans which have woefully failed to yield any result worth celebrating.

In effect, the Mahama administration seems to be telling Ghanaians it cannot do more to ensure stable power supply.

It is against this backdrop that Ghanaians should not relent in their efforts to demand the best from the party in government. Any organization or group of people staging a demonstration to demand immediate yet very pragmatic solutions from the Mahama administration must be patted at the back.

Movement for Change, having secured permission from the Ashanti regional police command to host Ghanaians with the sole objective of protesting vehemently against the injustice being meted out to them  by the VRA/ECG/GRIDco on the 24th day of February, for some strange reasons, have had to postpone its demonstration to the next day, 25th February, 2015.

While we find this unconventional looking at the fact that the group secured the permit to stage that demonstration on the said date before any other group did, United for Change Movement is urging Movement for Change not to allow this grand scheme to scuttle its planned programme. We are solidly behind them in this worthy exercise.

This should rather oxygenate the group to work tirelessly to achieve their set objective of ensuring that the Ashanti region isn't treated as a foreign land as far as the distribution of power to Ghanaians is concerned.

We are also using this medium to urge all well meaning Ghanaians to massively troop to the Ashanti regional capital on 25th February, to support Movement for Change in this exercise. This Animal Farm kind of rule must not be allowed to gain root in our country  as it doesn't bode well for democracy to thrive. This is a black cloud that portends a dangerous storm.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere, therefore, we ask Ghanaians to help defeat this looming danger by participating in this demonstration by Movement for Change on 25th February, 2015.
Thank you.

SIGNED:
MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447950318943
MR. KWADJO ANIM : +233247651154/+4915210555432
P.K SARPONG : 024 888 9263
JAMALUDEEN A. ABDULLAH : 0246198919
KATTE  PRATT: +44 7912 365690

United For Change Movement Endorses NPP's 'Wongbo Demo'

Ghanaians have been waiting with baited breath to reap the fruits of all the innumerable pledges the NDC administration made and continues to make to Ghanaians since 2009. One of such pledges was the vow to end the erratic power supply from the VRA and its siblings.

President Mahama was very categorical with his promise of making Ghana's
power crisis a relic of the past. However, the results of these promises and the interventions the government claims to have brought on board to dwarf this power crisis to the background have been nothing more than a pipe dream! The crisis keeps on worsening with each minute that passes, and the government seems not to either care or incompetent in handling the situation.

United for Change Movement believes that government's failure to find a lasting solution to this crisis is a clear breach of the social contract the NDC administration signed with Ghanaians, and this, in our candid opinion, is untenable. This unprecedented power crisis has had a very telling effect one Ghanaians as a whole; industries and businesses are paying more than they should to keep their businesses afloat, the ones with little financial muscle to bear these exorbitant costs are folding up, workers are being laid off, the hardest hit are the barbers, hairdressers, iced kenkey and water sellers, and a host of other entities. The gravity of the crisis has permeated every facet of the Ghanaian society to the extent that parents with wards in senior high schools are being coerced to cough out unearned monies to help buy generator sets and to fuel them to enable students attend preps during the night.


 

University of Ghana students have been asked to pay extra Ghc100.00 amid intense protestations. This is a direct result of gross levels of incompetence in handling a situation which could have been dealt with within a year or two. Less than three weeks ago, a baby who was being incubated in a hospital lost it's life as a result of this erratic power supply. Who knows what the future held in stock for that innocent baby? There are various accounts of a similar incident in other parts of the country. Ghanaians find themselves in up shit creek without a paddle.

It is against this backdrop that United for Change Movement is throwing its weighty weight behind the New Patriotic Party and all the other parties lacing up their boots to hit the streets on the 18th day of February, 2015.

United for Change Movement is urging the NPP and ghanaians as a whole not to make this planned demonstration a nine day wonder, but must strive to replicate this in all the other regions. The Mahama/Amissah-Arthur led-administration rode to power based upon a set of promises, policies and action plans captured in their manifesto, and solving this power canker featured prominently in that document, so President Mahama must, as a matter of urgency, rise to the occasion!

SIGNED:
MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447950318943
MR. KWADJO ANIM : +233247651154/+4915210555432
P.K SARPONG : 024 888 9263
JAMALUDEEN A. ABDULLAH : 0246198919
KATTE  PPRATT: +44 7912 365690

MAHAMA'S NATIONAL SANITATION EXERCISE IS A TRAGIC WASTE OF VALUABLE RESOURCES AND TIME; A PRESS RELEASE BY UNITED FOR CHANGE MOVEMENT

Many were the Ghanaian youth who jumped with wild jubilation when former President Kuffuor introduced the National Youth Employment Scheme which had a component of sanitation module employing thousands of our youth.
Best practices informed the then President Atta Mills' administration to continue with what President Kuffuor had left behind.
Jospong Group of Companies represented by Zoomlion was contracted to manage the sanitation module with our taxes.
Things started deteriorating soon after the demise of President Mills. Filth began to spring up all over the country as though Ghana was a room without a window, a Nation without a leader.
As a matter of fact, the whole nation was being engulfed with filth.
People started asking very pertinent questions about the capability of Zoomlion to manage that department efficiently because of the way sanitation has been abandoned in the various towns, villages and cities.
To make a long story short, President John Mahama is now asking Ghanaians to pick up the mantle of cleaning their own environment which hitherto was in the capable hands of Zoomlion.
President Mahama's administration instituted
the National Sanitation Day which falls on the first Saturday of every month after the filth became
overwhelming resulting in a record breaking cholera outbreak.
The United For Change Movement is therefore asking these salient questions;
1. How much money was sunk into the previous exercises?
2. As refuse collectors and cleaners strike for not being paid, couldn't this money be channeled to the refuse collectors and cleaners to motivate them to undertake their work effectively.
3. What has happened to Zoomlion and Zoil?
4.Why must Ghanaians willingly get involved in this cleanup when people have been employed to do so?
5. What happened to our taxes? Are they not being used to pay Zoomlion and Zoil to clean the environment?
Why are we honouring the contract if Zoomlion and Zoil have failed to live up to expectation?
More to the point, filth gathered after the exercise are left close to gutters and on the street without being collected. This makes the filth go back into the gutters and streets making the exercise useless and worthless.
Retired General Nunoo-Mensah, not too long ago, threw cold water on the sanitation exercise, calling it an exercise in futility since we are paying people to clean the streets.
We are of the opinion that our villages, towns and cities have been overtaken by filth due to President Mahama's failure to sack and appoint competent and capable people to prosecute such duties and also failing to release the District Assembly Common Fund part of which is used to take care of our sanitation issues.
Why must Ghanaians suffer for the incompetence of the Mahama administration and that of his appointees?
In our considered opinion it is a tragic waste of time for Ghanaians to be compelled to jump into gutters with the sole aim of cleaning them whereas we have paid taxes for Zoomlion or Zoil to be paid to do their job.
Moreover, the whole exercise will be hijacked by politicians and be turned into a funfair with brassband music and all. A total waste of resources and time.
We therefore call on all Ghanaians to ignore this unholy call for all and sundry to vigorously participate in this cleanup exercise. They have taken us for granted for far too long.
They should start earning their fat salaries and allowances by cleaning the mess they've created.

SIGNED:
MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447534455242
MR. KWADJO ANIM : 0507010101 /+4915210555432
P.K SARPONG: 024 888 9263
JAMALUDEEN A. ABDULLAH: 0246198919/0503274762
KATE PRATT: +44 7912 365690

SANCTIMONIOUS KWADWO AFARI DJAN MUST LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE!

The fact is irrefutable that Ghana's fledgling democracy will be put to another strenuous test in 2016 when the masses queue up to determine who their next leader should be. Of critical concern to many well-meaning Ghanaians is whether there will be a re-live of what was witnessed at the Supreme Court in case there is any attempt to suppress the sovereign will of the people by declaring a candidate president through some clerical and transpositional errors as was witnessed in the last elections. No one needs to possess the exceptional gift of a psychic to come to the ultimate conclusion that the courts would be ignored in 2016 should what happened in 2012 rear its ugly head again since the law, according to Justice William Atuguba and his partners in crime, is immaterial in such instances. The consequences may be dire, if the old path is retraced. It is against this background that the Afari Djan led-Electoral Commission must drop its recalcitrant posture by listening to the voices of reason!
It has been established variously that our electoral register is beyond bloated, and must be sanctified before the next general elections. Apropos the recommendations made by the Supreme Court in the famous elections petition, coupled with what some political parties have proposed, the EC has seen the need to vary and reform certain aspects of the laws pertaining to how elections are conducted. It gladdened our wailing hearts when Dr. Afari Djan announced a few days ago, that he, in close collaboration with the political parties and other stakeholders, is setting up a committee to delve deeply into the multitude of recommendations the EC has been flooded with. It is a step in the right direction for opinionated Afari Djan to condescend to the level of thousands of Ghanaians whose interest lies in Ghana going beyond 2016 in one piece.
Whilst we laud Dr. Afari Djan for this rare initiative, sight must not be lost of the fact that the problems besetting our electoral system far outweigh what the Supreme Court highlighted by way of recommendations!
United for Change Movement has sunk into our electoral register and have come out with facts and figures very incongruent with the population census conducted in 2010! There are about sixty- two (62) districts/constituencies whose 2010 population census figures make nonsense of what have been captured in the electoral register as those eligible to vote! For the sake of emphasis, let us dwell on six or seven of such districts which are also constituencies;
1. Ketu South's population stood at 160,756, but its voting population is 126,679. It means that 78.8% of the entire population was eligible to vote. We should not forget that the census figure did not exclude minors and strangers, and some might have died before the registration in 2012, yet we had these numbers of people voting in that district. This is intelligibly incohesive!
2. Ga East had a census figure of 259,688 and a voting figure of 231,684; representing 89.2%. This is bizarre, to say the least!
3. Obuasi with a population of 168,641, managed to register an amazing figure of 130,763; representing 77.5%, we find this figure to be wierd.
4. With a population of 143,762, Ejisu Juaben could strangely register an unbelievable figure of 108,980 as voting population. This represents 75.8% of the entire population of the district/constituency.
5. Bia district with a population of 116,332, the voting population was surprisingly 92,217; and this figure represents 79.3%.
6. Wassa Amanfi with a population of 88,688, the EC captured their voting population at an alarming figure of 110,192; representing an outrageous figure of 110%.
Fellow Ghanaians, in an ideal situation, the voting population of a constituency or country should not exceed 41% of its entire population, but what we have in these afore-mentioned districts/constituencies ridiculously outmatch normalcy! Attempts by some unscrupulous persons to create the impression that these figures are sacred because our annual population growth rate of 2.3% justifies these abnormal numbers should be treated with scorn since the numbers do not add up.
United for Change Movement is drawing the attention of Dr. Afari Djan and his allies that any reform made in our electoral system without addressing these concerns of the over bloated register will be counterproductive! We insist on a fresh register for election 2016 to ensure truly free, fair and transparent elections!
In their tendentious agenda to obfuscate the real issues surrounding this call for the electoral register to be sanitized to ensure controversy- free polls in 2016, the EC, led by Christian Owusu Perry, attempted to pull the wool over the eyes of Ghanaians with an explanation which was not only lame but absurd. We are scandalized with the example Mr. Owusu cited to buttress their claims that the register is not bloated. Charity, we say, begins at home! Why did Mr. Owusu Perry use Australia as a case study but not any other West African country or even African country? Perhaps, he knows very little about the age distribution of Australia's population and the current birth rate, so we can forgive him, but in all sincerity, using Australia as a case study is not only uninformed but miles off target! Christian Owusu Perry should cite African examples! He also alluded to the fact that the figures reported by the statistical service are in sync with our register in terms of Ghana's adults’ population, using this assertion to justify the figures captured in the register.
Owusu Perry and Afari Djan are not on the same wavelength then, because the latter, before the Legislature in 2012, was emphatic that there were too many minors in the register, lending credence to the long-held perception that our register is not a document worth trusting. Amadu Sulley and his allies should stop sounding funny with these weird explanations and allow the right thing to be done, which is, getting a new register for the next elections.
What is this fuss about the lexical items BLOATED and OVERBLOATED as Owusu Perry Afari Djan's deputy, sought to indulge in? Amadu Sulley should get the point that Ghanaians understand one thing; the indubitable fact that there are more names in our electoral register than required, and that is hugely unacceptable, and must be fixed! We are sick and tired of these semantics!
SIGNED:
MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447534455242
MR. KWADJO ANIM : +233247651154/+4915210555432
P.K Sarpong: 024 888 9263
Jamaludeen A. Abdullah: 0246198919
Kate Pratt: +44 7912 365690

The Powerful Woman Behind Ruby's Cocaine Trade By United For Change Movement

 

Ruby Ametefe, Africa's narcotics Cleopatra, walked majestically like the Queen of England through the VIP lounge of Ghana's only international airport ,the Kotoka International Airport, carrying along with her a whopping 12.5kg of cocaine to the UK, hoping it was her day in the sun, only for her hopes to be dashed when the ever-reliable security offices at Heathrow busted her.
Nayele Ruby Ametefe, by every stretch of the imagination, is so dear to the faint hearts of the ruling party, leading to ministers, deputy ministers and self-acclaimed government communicators to debase themselves by appointing themselves unofficial spokespersons for enigmatic Ruby Mahama, a.k.a., 'Angel'. What was more worrying was the inconsistencies with which they passionately defended Nayele Ametefe.
The denials, lies and inconsistencies flew in from all angles even when Ruby had not whispered a word as to how she managed to travel through Kotoka with cocaine without notice. Suffice it to say that Ghanaians have been bombarded with information already supplied with our numerous press releases over this issue, so let us delve into the substantive matter.
During Ruby's trial, her attorney supplied the court and the world with a juicy info about a supposedly powerful lady being her prime accomplice. She also, through the same lawyer, alluded to the fact that there are some powerful government officials who are her partners in crime. This revealing admission is hugely in tandem with events which panned out when she was arrested. These questions are begging for answers;
1. Why were government officials, including ministers and communicators, gallivanting from one radio and television station to another vehemently defending debauched Naayele Ruby Ametefe if this administration isn't complicit in this saga? Their unholy defence of Ruby goes to show that government is in the known as to the officials who have always been in bed with Ruby.
2. Why is Mahama showing no interest in investigating this matter further to apprise Ghanaians of the nitty-gritty of this scandal that has caused an excruciating pain to our reputation as a nation?
3. Why are we not interested in the brains behind Ruby's uninhibited passage through the VIP lounge of the Kotoka International Airport?
United for Change Movement is of the firmest belief that this NDC government is the owner of these criminals hiding behind the corridors of power, perpetrating heinous crimes against Ghanaians and the world in its entirety.
Government and its hired agents should spare us the absurdity of blaming other people for their naked incompetence in handling this issue!
Ladies and gentlemen, the Mahama administration cannot absolve itself from blame for this international debacle brought upon us, thanks to their dearest Ruby Mahama.
We must bring sunshine to this scandal, and Mahama must lead the way, and this is our genuine call!
SIGNED:
MR. ROBBIE SARKODIE KLINSMAN : +447534455242
MR. KWADJO ANIM : +233247651154/+4915210555432
P.K Sarpong: 024 888 9263
Jamaludeen A. Abdullah: 0246198919
Kate Pratt: +44 7912 365690

Authorities Must Publicize Ruby Ametefe's Travelling Records Or Shut Up!

Ghanaians woke up to be greeted with the unsavory news item of a Ghanaian lady who had been busted at    Heathrow for trafficking a 12.5kg of cocaine. What was more worrying was the fact that she used the VVIP lounge at the Kotoka International Airport, an event which dented Ghana's already battered international image.
In their zeal to extricate themselves from this international debacle, government appointees and apparatchiks tried everything humanly possible to hoodwink Ghanaians into believing that indeed Ruby Mahama's 12.5kg cocaine was not state-sponsored, when the obvious fact is that she couldn't walk through the VVIP lounge without the assistance of government.
In order to further create the impression that government was in the dark as far as this case is concerned, the BNI quickly embarked on a venture which destination will be nothing more than a complete disaster. Not only did they arrest Alhaji Dawood but also two other ladies who they claim are her accomplices. As though some of us were clairvoyants, proceedings at the court are testament enough of the fact that the arrest was pretentiously executed to pull the wool over our eyes that the Mahama administration is hellbent in fighting drugs trafficking when the opposite is the case.
The argument being propagated by the prosecutors is so shallow that a 1st year law student would easily get this people off the hook. Evidence we've gathered so far clearly indicates that she has travelled over thirty times this year using the Austrian passport (passport number P4187659). United For Change Movement has further gathered she travelled to UK on seven different occasions and also went to other parts of Europe on several occasions, some of which she used a private jet.
We can also confirm authoritatively that she was always being picked up in vehicles on the tarmac; a case in point was her last trip when she was arrested in a chauffeur-driven vehicle that was expectantly waiting for her. We have every reason to believe that in all those occasions, she travelled with cocaine, but strangely enough she could not be fished out. This is a clear indication that officialdom played a key role in fascinating her rather profitable venture.
If government is denying these incontrovertible facts, the travelling records of Ruby Mahama should be published. Until that government and it's communicators should spare us these streneous efforts to wean themselves off this cocaine saga.
SIGNED:
Robbie Sarkodie Klinsman
P. K. Sarpong
Jamaludeen A. Abdullah
Eddie Nii
Kate Pratt

AFARI GYAN MUST BE ARRESTED

Group Demands Prosecution Of EC Boss, Afari-Gyan

By United For Change Movement

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Ghanaians, from all indications, have been living with a false sense of belief that our eccentric EC chairman is some god who does no wrong, a phenomenon that has led to others nursing the thought that the man lives poles apart from bribery and corruption.

However, events leading to the 2012 elections made some Ghanaians come to the momentous conclusion that Dr. Kwadwo Afari Djan was not just extremely corrupt but a wicked liar and very treacherous! It was being bruited around during and after the famous election petition which lasted a record 8 months in the political history of Africa, that the chairman of the EC was in close cahoots with the ruling NDC and had been offered billions of cedis as his unofficial retirement benefit just to sing the same song as Johnson Asiedu Nketia in the witness' box.

This premonition was confirmed by Victoria Hammer, a former deputy minister when she sought to drum into the dumb skull of Rachel Apor that a lot of water went under the bridge before John Mahama was declared the ultimate winner of the elections and eventually the shocking supreme court ruling. Truth was murdered and justice completely annihilated for cash, putting it mildly, and Dr.Afari Gyan couldn't have been an outsider when that evil machination was being hatched.

United for Change Movement finds it extremely difficult to come to terms with the fact that there is enough incriminatory evidence to put Afari Gyan behind bars permanently, yet our government and its security apparatus seem to have folded their arms, they are just sitting on the fence. On the 30th day of August, 2013, Christopher John Smith and his partner, Nicholas Smith, both from East Sussex, were charged with payments of bribes to the Afari Djan led-electoral commission and that of Kenya, Mauritania and Somalia, before the Westminster Magistrate Court.

Christopher was the chairman of Smith and Ouzman printing firm while Nicholas Smith was the director of marketing. The two were convicted on 22nd December, 2014, at the Southwark Crown Court as a result of a Serious Fraud Office investigations into corrupt payments made for the awards of business contracts to the company. Chris was convicted of two counts of corruptly agreeing to pay the electoral bodies of Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania and Somaliland. The younger Smith was convicted of three counts of agreeing to pay bribes for the awards of contracts in the above-mentioned countries. Sentencing will take place on the 12th day of February, 2015.

Dr.Kwadwo Afari Djan has been at the helm of affairs of our Electoral Commission since time immemorial, and has benefited immensely from these illegal payments. United for Change Movement finds this more than mind-boggling that nothing is being done by our loud-mouth security experts to bring sunshine to this darkness that seems to have engulfed our EC. It beats our wildest imaginations why Dr Afari Djan and his cohorts are not being investigated by the BNI. Our EC's complicity in this international debacle tacitly confirms our irrevocable supposition that the Dr. Afari Gyan led-electoral commission is a symbol of corruption, perhaps, second to none in terms of public entities deemed to be extremely corrupt.

If Mahama wants the world to rally behind him in his resolve to fighting corruption, it is about time he showed us by instructing our investigative bodies to delve deeper into the issues surrounding these corrupt deals at the Electoral Commission. Anything short of Mahama walking his talk will be met with a series of actions whose repercussions may be far beyond the reach of this administration, and that is all that United for Change Movement is asking for!

SIGNED:
Robbie Sarkodie Klinsman
P. K. Sarpong
Jamaludeen A. Abdullah
Eddie Nii
Kate Pratt
Johny Walker