WOYONGO MUST STEP ASIDE FOR INVESTIGATION — NPP (PAGE 14, APRIL 10, 2010)

The Communication Team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region, has called for the immediate investigations into alleged claims by the Regional Minister, Mr Mark Woyongo, that one Clement Akapami, a contractor, contributed GH¢50,000 to the NDC's campaign in 2008.
According to the group, the allegation, if proven to be true, contravenes the Political Party Law, section 20, which forbids individuals from contributing such huge sums of money towards a political party's campaign.
A press statement issued by the group and signed by its spokespersons, Messrs Randy Aganah and Bediako Ahmed, also called for the prosecution of the said contractor if he was found not to have paid his taxes appropriately.
The group also called on President John Evans Atta Mills to ask the regional minister to stay out of office to allow for the setting up of a committee to investigate the minister over the awards of contracts by the Regional Co-ordinating Council.
According to the spokespersons of the group, the regional minister had been brazenly violating procurement laws in the region.
"If the regional minister saw it necessary to ask those two civil servants of the Regional Co-ordinating Council, to step aside to allow for investigation, for allegedly leaking information on the award of contract letters, then he should do the same, for the sake of fairness."
“In any case the minister’s continuous stay in office may compromise the investigations and bring about a Muntaka scenario,” the statement said.