George Kwabena Adu, popularly known in Showbiz as Kwabena Kwabena, called on the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) to conduct a transparent inquiry in the best interest of Ghanaians to ensure the culpable persons are prosecuted in the court of law.
He admonished the investigative body not to toy with the debt case since the amount in question is astronomical and called for an account of the said Stadium contract to Alfred Woyome by the previous government.
According to him, a case of this sort would culminate in financial misappropriation; a more reason why a thorough investigation would be necessary to bring a closure to the infamous Woyome judgment debt chronicle.
“As far as this issue is concerned, it has become an issue of public interest and every Ghanaian [if you are a discerning Ghanaian] would want to know what really happened. We wouldn’t want to be pointing accusing fingers now, you see. So, I’d wish that the authorities would be able to do whatever they can as far as investigation is concerned. Anybody who has to sit aside to allow investigation to go on must sit aside so that the truth actually will come out.”
Kwabena Kwabena spoke on Xfm’s morning show Big Bite.
Touching on the defiance of some NPP gurus to appear before EOCO, Ghana’s award winning high life artiste, Kwabena Kwabena, said the right of the opposition party officials should be revered and the inquiry made public to the full glare of the entire citizenry.
To him, setting up a public committee of inquiry as proposed by the New Patriotic Party will enhance the credibility of the investigations and also make sure all Ghanaians become abreast of the facts in the Woyome saga.
He passionately stressed that “…as a Ghanaian; as somebody who is so interested to know everything day to day. I want to be glued to my set watching a day to day event about this whole saga…So; I just feel that at this point, this thing is so public that any indoor investigation is not necessary.”
He premised his support on the idea that the Economic and Organized Crime Office would be disillusioned from the prejudice that it is a subsidiary of the Attorney General’s Department and would not conduct independent investigations into the wild vexed saga.
He also expressed doubts about President Mills’ denial of cognizance about the incidents that led to the state delivering a whooping amount of 58 million to 92 million cedis to Alfred Woyome at the behest of the former Attorney General, Betty Mould Iddrisu.
“Why is it that somebody has offered a certain option which I think every Ghanaian would be interested, I feel so? On [TV] national TV, if GTV, TV3, Metro TV, all of them is right there and then we all watch the proceedings and then we can all judge in our homes [in the comfort of our homes] who did wrong. And then the culprits can be dealt with accordingly. It has nothing to do with who joins that party or who is what.”, Kwabena Kwabena rhetorically said.
He implored government, EOCO and the opposition parties to detach politics from the debt incurred from the financial purse of the nation and called for total cooperation to expose the culprits.
He also commended Mr. Martin Amidu, former Attorney General, for his courage to unearth the perpetrators committing gargantuan crimes against the economy but added Mr. Amidu, in pursuit of justice, should not renege on his quest but “investigate on his own personal capacity” to exonerate himself.
Story by Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/X fm 95.1/Accra/Ghana
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