Some government vehicles which were clandestinely driven to garages and parked supposedly for repairs in the wake of the transition have been removed from the garages. <\/p>\n
This apparently follows calls by the public to some local radio stations that some government officials were hiding their official vehicles at some places. <\/p>\n
The vehicles include four wheel drives and double cabin pick-ups. <\/p>\n
Times<\/em> investigations revealed that some government officials and politicians had also parked their vehicles in residences, removed the tyres and put them on stones. <\/p>\n Some of the vehicles the Times located in some residences include a four-wheel Nissan Patrol Landcruiser with registration number GV 8892C belonging to the Environmental Protection Agency and a Mitsubishi Four wheel pick up with registration number GV2171 C. <\/p>\n The others are a TATA four-wheel drive pick up with registration GE 2071L belonging to NADMO, and a new Nissan bus with registration number GV 750 R belonging to the Ministry of Health. <\/p>\n There are also vehicles whose number plates had been removed but were identified by their drivers as belonging to the state. <\/p>\n Mr Yakubu Abugri, a concerned citizen, says considering what is happening, the government should, as a matter of urgency, establish regional and district assets committees to locate and all retrieve government property. <\/p>\n He said he was convinced that records of such vehicles could be ascertained from the ministries and the office of the Chief of Staff in Accra. <\/p>\n Hitherto, he said, such vehicles were kept on stones and later auctioned at give-away prices to the officials who arrange with the Chief of Staff’s office thus creating artificial shortage of official vehicles in those ministries and departments. <\/p>\n The outgoing Upper East Regional Director of the Department of Women and Children’s Affairs, Ms Paulina Abayaye, whose Nissan Pick-up with registration number GV 2171 C was found parked in another house away from her residence, claimed that because she was travelling to Accra, the driver decided to pack it in a walled house 500 metres away from her residence to avoid it being stolen. <\/p>\n Ms Abayaye is proceeding on transfer and has handed over to her successor. <\/p>\n The other heads of department, whose vehicles were found in garages, could not be reached for their explanations. <\/p>\n Source: Ghanaian Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n