Freddie Blay not competent to hurl corruption accusations – Bernard Mornah
The national chairman of the People’s National Convention party (PNC), Bernard Mornah has labeled the acting chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Freddie Blay as someone not competent enough to criticize government on corruption.
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According to Bernard Mornah, Freddie Blay and his team in the NPP have made it impossible for anyone in the party to demand internal accountability, and made sure any executive who insisted on probing matters has had to be removed from office.
Mornah who was contributing to discussions on Alhaji and Alhaji, a current affairs programme on Radio Gold on Saturday, said he found it rather strange that it was no other than Freddie Blay who was hurling stones from a glasshouse.
Mr Blay at the launch last week of the NPP’s Election 2016 fundraising campaign, had accused the government of corruption and handing over the management of Ghana's economy to the IMF, demanding also that President Mahama's “Accounting to the people” tour of the regions should account to the people on GYEEDA, SADA and the rebranding of buses so as not to insult the intelligence of Ghanaians.
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“It appears to me that if you escape the word corruption you would see Freddie Blay”, said the PNC chairman, adding that “it is because of this that Freddie Blay and his team orchestrated the removal of Kwabena Agyepong, Paul Afoko, Sammy Crabbe and anybody in the NPP who wants to say that let’s be accountable; that as a party we can’t be unaccountable and want to go into government and so let’s be accountable to our people; let’s explain how things are done, how come we are able to open an account at Prudential Bank, we have gone to take a loan in the name of the party, party executives are not signatories to the bank account, and that it is some individuals who are signatories and they are committing the party to come and repay that particular loan, and the bank would write to the party and the party says no, we are unaware of such an account, no official of the party is signatory to it so those responsible, and because of that Paul and his team must go.”
He maintained that the man demanding accountability has himself refused to be accountable to the people in his own party and asked that Freddie Blay focuses his energies there to strengthen the party.
“We are aware of ECOBANK accounts where monies are put and monies that are withdrawn without the approval of official or elected executives, supervised by Freddie Blay and it is not a case where Freddie Blay wants to be accountable. When a committee was set up, and the committee … is about giving out its report and the report would go to the national chairman, Freddie Blay and co. removes the existing national chairman so that he would be the one to receive the report. That is not accounting to the people in the NPP, so really it’s a bit difficult because I would end up saying certain things that may injure certain relationships, but I think that before you say or throw something at somebody, watch yourself and Freddie Blay is not competent to come and ask the kind of questions that he is asking. Freddie Blay cannot say the many things that he is saying and I’m just a bit disappointed that rather than look at how the NPP is going to straighten the many crooked corners within their party so that they will have a formidable front in going into #Election 2016, they want to be throwing unnecessary mud.
“We can do better as opposition when we take genuine criticisms to the government and I think that even as we criticize the government let’s s also offer the alternative that the people of Ghana would be looking at. So I want to see, what is it that Nana Addo would do so that we would not question the judgement that leads to the appointment of his ministers and people around him. What is it that Nana Addo will do so that people would not say that they used two voters’ registers at a particular constituency so that at the end of the day those things would inform that this is a person that deserves the mandate of the people of Ghana.”
