{"id":275029,"date":"2011-01-28T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=49873"},"modified":"2011-01-28T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:57:34","slug":"retraction-apology-to-ceo-of-ghana-free-zones-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/28\/retraction-apology-to-ceo-of-ghana-free-zones-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Retraction &amp; Apology To CEO Of Ghana Free Zones Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Editorial Team of <strong>peacefmonline.com<\/strong> wishes to retract an online publication that made spurious allegations  against the person of Mr. Kwadwo Twum Boafo, Chief Executive Officer of  the Ghana Free Zones Board.<br \/>\nThe said article, in the form of a press statement from <strong>Mediawatch Research Associates<\/strong> an organization that touts itself as dedicated to addressing corruption  in Ghana and Africa, asked \u201cPresident Mills, the Attorney General and  the Criminal Investigations Office of the Ghana Police Service to  investigate a deposit account at the Standard Bank in South Africa  registered in the Names of Mr. Kwadwo Twum Boafo, the current Chief  Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Board and Pieter Van  Huggestien.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cVan Huggestien is a South African Businessman  currently wanted for Corporate Fraud and False Accounting in South  Africa and believed to be hiding in Djakarta, Indonesia.<br \/>\nThe  statement also requested the above organizations \u201cto investigate the  alleged disappearance of 500,000 Dollars from the Ghana Free Zones  Account for the year MAY 2009 to NOV 2010.<br \/>\nOur checks, however,  indicate that the allegations lack evidential support and\/ or contained  factual inaccuracies and also cannot be independently substantiated.<br \/>\nThe  press release again claimed the alleged malpractice took place between  May 2009 and November 2010, but available evidence shows that the  current CEO of the Free Zones Board Mr. Kwadwo Twum-Boafo was appointed  in July 2009.<br \/>\n<strong>PEACEFMONLINE.COM<\/strong> therefore expresses regret  at publicizing this factual inaccuracy, retracts and unreservedly  renders an unqualified apology for any embarrassment and damage the  publication might have caused to the image and integrity of Kwadwo Twum  Boafo, his family, friends, business associates and the Ghana Free Zones  Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Editorial Team of peacefmonline.com wishes to retract an online publication that made spurious allegations against the person of Mr. Kwadwo Twum Boafo, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Board. 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