The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has reacted to the article by the Board Chair of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) regarding the selection of Rock City Hotel in the purchase of 60% shares in four SSNIT-owned hotels.
The MP says the views expressed by the Baird Chair do not represent the views of the entire board.
Madam Ohene has described the process of selecting the Rock City Hotel owned by Minister for Agriculture Bryan Acheampong as clean and transparent.
In an article titled “Coming out of the Hotels,” Elizabeth Ohene said she was prepared to take responsibility and was also ready to be prosecuted should any act of corruption or wrongdoing be detected during the process.
“I am able to say with the utmost certainty that the process that led to the selection of Rock City as the Preferred Bidder was clean, above board and met every rule and regulation and can withstand every scrutiny.
“Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa claims to have God and Ghana on the side of his campaign, and I would hope all of God’s Angels and Ghana’s investigative agencies, temporal and spiritual, would examine the process and tell the world if they find any irregularity or trace of corrupt practice. Indeed, if they should find any evidence of corruption, I will assume and accept responsibility and expect to be prosecuted.”
But the MP who has petitioned the Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the matter described the response as the personal opinion of Madam Ohene.
“It is her personal opinion and personal observation and analysis on this matter. That is the first challenge I have on this piece. One would have thought that as the board chair breaking her silence on this matter she would be speaking officially and authoritatively on behalf of the organisation, carrying the views of all board members.
“She hasn’t done that in this case. Remember that on the 20th of May this year, organised Labour held a press conference at which press conference they announced to the whole world that their reps on the board, four reps on the board, the board Elizabeth Ohene chairs opposed this transaction and that they told SSNIT to stop the transaction.”
“…I thought that the honourable Elizabeth Ohene would address that. She doesn’t address this. So to the extent that you have other board members speaking on the platform of organised labour telling us that they don’t support this transaction…We cannot therefore take the honourable Elizabeth Ohene’s op-ed on this matter as representing the views of the entire board,” he stated.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
