{"id":427338,"date":"2011-05-20T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/20\/spio-garbrah-confesses-he-received-appointment-from-mills\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:22:00","slug":"spio-garbrah-confesses-he-received-appointment-from-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/20\/spio-garbrah-confesses-he-received-appointment-from-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Spio-Garbrah confesses he received appointment from Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"DrIt has been revealed that contrary to claims from Dr Ekwow Spio Garbrah that he had been shunned by President Mills the former Vice Chairman of the NDC received an appointment from President Mills to serve as government representative on the Board of AngloGold Ashanti more than a year ago.<\/p>\n

The revelation was made on Metro TV\u2019s Good Evening Ghana on which Dr Spio-Garbrah was a guest.<\/p>\n

Dr. Spio-Garbrah was talking about he and other qualified persons in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) were not getting government appointments because they were being sabotaged when a viewer sent in a text message to say that he had no justification to complain because he had been appointed to the Board of AngloGold Ashanti.<\/p>\n

He confirmed the appointment and said he had been serving and getting paid like any board member since. When asked why he had not told the public about his government appointment, he simply said \u201cbecause you did not ask me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of that revelation, Dr. Spio-Garbrah ha disclosed that before he left for the UK after the 2008 elections, he held a meeting with President Mills and others where the President promised to appoint him as Foreign Minister but that did not happen because of the influence of what he called \u201cthe Fante Confederation\u201d (Referring to the Ahwois) on the president\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt some point they confessed to me that they stopped my appointment to the Foreign Ministry and I still don\u2019t know why \u2013 in fact if I become president today, they will be some of the first people I will consider for ministerial positions but they don\u2019t like me, maybe because the president favoured me and appointed me to man his campaign head office in 2006,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Spio-Garbrah also said President Mills later asked him to name any organization where he (Spio) wanted to be board chairman and \u201cI named seven organizations but I have not been appointed to any since.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat worries me is not that I am not getting appointed or being sabotaged but that the President\u2019s authority is being undermined by people around him \u2013 it is worrying to have a president say something to you at one time and in the next moment someone else\u2019s threat changes his mind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Spio-Garbrah also touched on the appointment of young people in the Mills government saying that there were more experienced persons like him and others who could have been Ministers for the young ones to deputize.<\/p>\n

He particularly mentioned the Ministry of Information where he said \u201cit was a mistake for the President to have appointed three innocent people as minister and deputies only to change the minister later.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the point, Special Communications Assistant to the President at the Ministry of Information, Stan Dogbe sent in a text message to say that Dr. Spio-Garbrah only wanted to be president because he was full of himself and still thought the youth did not deserve a chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us see how many of the so-called foot soldiers he claims to be fighting for will vote for him\u201d the text message said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Spio-Garbrah insisted that the youth have a place in governance but he felt some of the appointments given to young people in the Mills government were above them.<\/p>\n

He said in spite of what people thought that he was creating enmity for himself by speaking his mind about appointments of young people, he still had a huge constituency of young people across the country, and that he would win in many places if he contests to be a Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n

Dr. Spio-Garbrah has picked nomination forms to contest the NDC presidential slot in July and he said this is his time.
\u201cEverything happening in the party now should tell you one thing \u2013 that it\u2019s Spio time \u2013 so if anyone asks you what time is it, you don\u2019t look at your watch and tell them the time, just say its Spio time,\u201d he said with laughter.<\/p>\n

Story: Samuel Nii Narku Dowuona\/ Adom News\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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