The Executive Secretary of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Mr. Vitus Axim has called on the leadership of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to explain how it is funding the controversial $20 million edifice under construction at Adabraka for office use.
Officials of the party have contradicted each other at various attempts to explain whether or not the claim made by opposition pressure group Alliance For Accountable Governance (AFAG) that the building belongs to the party was true.
NDC General Secretary Jonson Asiedu Nketia – who told party delegates during their Sunyani Congress that the party was building an ultra modern headquarters in Accra – reportedly said the NDC owed Ghanaians no explanation on the matter.
However Mr Vitus Axim disagrees with Asiedu Nketia’s position.
He said on Citi FM Eyewitness News Monday that political parties were bound by the Constitution to “file returns with the Electoral Commission indicating their…incomes they get and their expenditures”.
Therefore Ghanaians, as far as he was concerned, had the right to demand the source of funding for the building.
The anti-corruption campaigner urged the NDC to come clean on the issue since keeping silent over it would only cement public suspicion.