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Report reaching us has it that, Director of funds for Akufo-Addo’s campaign in connivance with acting general secretary John Boadu and NPP Youth Organiser Sammi Awuku have diverted a budgeted amount of Ghana cedis 2 million meant to pay polling agents of the party across Ghana and also to pay for Buses that will convey sympathizers of the New Patriotic Party from Accra to their respective places of vote, a close source has said.
According to high placed sources in the NPP, Monies were released last week Friday by the campaign team of the NPP flagbearer Akufo-Addo to cater for this vital exercise but as at 4:30am this morning, thousands of NPP sympathizers were spotted stranded at the various bus stations in Accra. Some who spoke to our newspaper express great “disappointment” in the NPP over how they have been left “frustrated” at the various bus stations with no party executive attending to their aid.
Speaking to a member of Akufo-Addo’s campaign team who blurted out his frustrations against the system on condition of anonymity, he indicated that, last week Friday, the campaign team “approved” and “made available” a cash amount of Ghc 2 million for Hiring of Buses and payments for polling station allowances of the party’s agent in all 275 constituencies. Ken Ofori-Atta was given the express permission of Nana Akufo-Addo and the campaign team to liason with Director of Operations John Boadu and Sammi Awuku to see to the “execution” of this task. However, as at yesterday, “painstaking” checks made by the campaign team revealed that, Buses that conveyed people are not upto the Monies allocated for that purpose in the Ghc 2 million budget. Also, the campaign team is “picking intelligence” that suggests that, monies to pay polling agents have been “cut down” and a chunk part of that budgeted monies is possibly facing the “threat of diversion.”
It would be recalled that, last 2012 elections, some polling agents of the NPP complained “bitterly” about not receiving No or full payment of their allowances. In 2013, Ken Ofori-Atta reportedly, used the party’s headquarters as collateral to secure a 1.5million Ghana cedis loan from Prudential Bank. Akufo-Addo’s cousin Ken Ofori-Atta is said to have lied to Bank over purposes for the loan when he said to the bank it was meant to pay polling agents but it turned out and Ken Ofori-Atta himself confessed that, it was a personal loan. As at the time of going to Press, efforts to reach director of operations John Boadu to speak on this subject has proven futile as he has failed to answer his phone calls.
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