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Pro-New Patriotic Party group, ‘Fixing The Country Movement’ have announced that they will be petitioning the Office of the Special Prosecutor to revisit the Airbus bribery scandal.
The group said it will be petitioning international governments over the issue particularly the United Kingdom’s High Commission and the United States Embassy.
They want former President John Dramani Mahama, who they insist played a key role in the scandal, to be held responsible and intimately punished for his role.
Addressing a press conference on September 5, 2021, the leader of the movement, Ernest Owusu Bempah streesed that holding Mahama responsible will be nothing new given that a number of former presidents on the continent and elsewhere have been jailed for corruption offences committed during their tenure.
He specifically cited former South African preisdent Jacob Zuma who was recently jailed by the country’s top court for contempt whiles he still faces a raft of corruption charges during his time in government.
Owusu Bempah believes that Mahama is the person code-named ‘Government Official 1’ in the Airbus scandal report.
He added that the ‘Movement’ was particularly angered by recent comments by Mahama, who during his ‘Thank You Tour’ of the northern regions made comments to the effect that the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government was engaging in grand corruption.
Mr Mahama also tasked Ghanaians voters to kick out the NPP come 2024 in order to ensure that the succeeding NDC government will hold them accountable for corrupt deals.
The call came at a time NPP is also tasking members to unite and consolidate the successes of government in order to ‘break-the-eight,’ reference to a phenomenon where a ruling party loses power after eight years.
The Movement insists that the Mahama government was a bad as it gets in the area of corruption and that Mahama specifically lacks the gravitas to accuse Akufo-Addo and his appointees of corruption.
A recent development in the UK’s probe on the scandal is that the Serious Fraud Office had dropped all charges against a key suspect citing lack of evidence.
MyNewsGhana report citing experts noted that, the development could likely affect Ghana’s case against the man (PhilMiddlemiss) who had been declared wanted in Ghana along with two others for the Airbus scandal.
It also could make it difficult for Ghana’s Special Prosecutor who is relying on the UK SFO to get anyonenin Ghana or the UK prosecuted over the Airbus SE scandal, the report added.
Ghana’s first Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, had opened an investigation into the said scandal before he left office, his successor has not stated whether he is keeping the said docket open.
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