National Chairman and General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Paul Awentime Afoko, and Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, have been slapped with an indefinite suspension from the positions they were occupying but pieces of information reaching Kaspafmonline.com indicate that their suspension may have been orchestrated.
A document chanced upon by this website suggests that the party’s national treasurer, Mr. Abankwa Yeboah may have been the brain behind the suspension of the duo, having succeeded in blocking them from accessing the party’s funds at the Ghana Commercial Bank, Accra-North Branch.
Mr. Abankwa Yeboah together with Paul Afoko, Kwabena Agyepong the First Vice Chairman of the NPP were recently embroiled with disagreement over control of the party’s finances, an issue that played a critical role in making the chief scribe and the national chairman look bad in the eyes of the party aparatchikis.
Mr. Abankwa-Yeboah is reported to have written to managers of the Ghana Commercial Bank, Accra-North Branch, through his Counsel, Gary Nimako Marfo of Puozuing & Associates, instructing them to halt any financial transactions with Mr. Agyepong and Paul Afoko since he is the custodian of the party’s funds.
His action, this website understands, was spurred to Mr. Agyepong’s failure to account for monies drawn from the accounts to pay for the expenses of the Party’s Parliamentary Primaries in some constituencies.
“We act as solicitors for Mr. Kwabena Abankwa-Yeboah, the National Treasurer of the New Patriotic Party and we write pursuant to his instructions.”
“We are informed that our client, Mr. Abankwa-Yeboah, the National Chairman Mr. Paul Afoko and the General Secretary, Mr. Kwabena Agyepong have the mandate to operate the bank accounts of the Party.”
“Our client informs that prior to the Party’s Parliamentary Primaries, he released cheques totaling GH₵2,008,880.00 with an attached schedule of the breakdown of the disbursements to the General Secretary for the benefit of 275 Constituencies in their Parliamentary Primaries including expenses on security, regional monitoring, and allowances for electoral commission staff. It is our information that though the said monies have been released from the account, some of the Constituencies claim that they have received monies meant for their Parliamentary Primaries.”
“Our Client informs us that he officially requested the General Secretary to account for the monies drawn on the account for the purpose indicated but he failed to yield to his request yet he insists that additional funds should be released to him.”
“Our Client also informs us that his attention has been drawn to additional funds that have been transferred from the party’s accounts without his knowledge, consent and approval.”
“We wish to respectfully point it out to your good offices that under the constitution of the New Patriotic Party, our client has the legal mandate to among others handle the national funds of the Party. Thus, as National Treasurer our client remains the custodian of the Party’s funds and ought to account for all disbursements to the Stakeholders of the Party.”
“We are therefore instructed to notify you to halt any further transaction on the account forthwith until otherwise directed.”
“Please be advised accordingly,” the letter of which former President John Agyekum Kufuor, Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Chairman, Council of Elders, the Chairman National Executive Committee and four others were copied in part read.
The letter, according to inside sources, was meant to frustrate Mr. Agyepong and Afoko and make them look bad in the eyes of the party members.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
