Nana Akomea bought state car for GHC800

Some Ghanaians are fuming with anger following a revelation that Nana Akomea, the communications director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), bought a state vehicle for GHC800 in 2008.

But Akomea, who was minister for employment and social welfare at the time, has defended the purchase of Facebook, saying that at the time, GHC800 was equivalent to $800.

He also said the car was an old car which he had used for nine years.

“This official car offered me was a nine-year-old (S reg) Skoda Octavia, which l was given as official car in 2001, and which l used for 9 years. That GHC800 in August 2008 was equivalent to eight hundred dollars ($800),” he wrote.

Akomea said the NDC had in 2009 rejected the valuation of the vehicles done by the STC, and had had the vehicles revalued by their own appointed valuer.

He said the NDC had also instructed NPP appointees to pay the new much higher values if they wanted to keep the vehicles.
Akomea suggested that the action was hypocritical of the NDC, noting that in 2000, departing NDC appointees bought their official vehicles at STC values.