The National Democratic Congress (NDC), says President Akufo-Addo’s appointment of the former Director of the Ghana Maritime Authority Kwame Owusu, as the new Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority, GRA, is an endorsement of corruption.
A Statement signed by the General Secretary of the Party, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, said Mr. Owusu’s tenure as the Ghana Maritime Authority Board Chairman will be seen as another moment of wasteful expenditure and abuse of the public purse.
It said it is worried about the new heights corruption has assumed and given the present posturing of the President, the war against corruption is far from being won.
Mr Kwame Owusu resigned as MD of the Ghana Maritime Authority in February 2019 after he was accused of financial misappropriation. He is also alleged to have budgeted ¢10,000.00 to host a lunch meeting for 17 people at a hotel he owns, prompting conflict of interest concerns. The government subsequently instituted a probe into the matter but the findings have not been made public.
