{"id":489264,"date":"2011-10-11T22:36:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T22:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/10\/11\/it%e2%80%99s-ridiculous-to-say-sipa-yankey-and-abodakpi-are-ex-convicts\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T22:36:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T22:36:27","slug":"its-ridiculous-to-say-sipa-yankey-and-abodakpi-are-ex-convicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/10\/11\/its-ridiculous-to-say-sipa-yankey-and-abodakpi-are-ex-convicts\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It\u2019s Ridiculous To Say Sipa Yankey And Abodakpi Are Ex-Convicts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/d3c507131272_730719.jpg.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c6\" \/><span>A former Chief of Staff Nana Ato Dadzie has said it is \u201cfundamentally wrong\u201d and \u201cridiculous\u201d for anyone to flak president John Evans Atta-Mills for appointing pardoned former public officials to head key positions in his present government.<\/p>\n<p>A pressure group, Forum for Public Accountability (FPA), on Tuesday lashed out at the president for appointing what it called \u201cex-convicts\u201d to serve in a very sensitive and big budget state institutions and offices in his administration.<\/p>\n<p>The group mentioned Ghana Gas Company chief, George Sipa Yankey, Agricultural Development Bank\u2019s board chairman, Ibrahim Adams, Ghana\u2019s Envoy to Malaysia, Daniel Abodakpi and Trust Bank board chairman, Kwame Peprah, as the four ex-convicts whose continuous stay in office under the present administration can endanger the nation\u2019s public funds.<\/p>\n<p>However, the legal practitioner argued that since former president John Agyekum Kufuor pardoned the quartet before leaving office, it would be erroneous for anyone to tag them as \u201cex-convicts. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say that the president had appointed ex-convicts is actually to indicate that the concept of pardon is not recognised by anybody,\u201d Nana Dadzie told Joy FM on Tuesday. \u201cI don\u2019t understand. It was the former president who exercised the power of pardon in respect of these gentlemen. So once the pardon goes out the people become free, they are no longer convicts. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former chief of staff under the J. J Rawlings administration said it would be outlandish to whip the president in public like the FPA is doing now since he has not erred or disrespected any part of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been given free and unconditional pardon. The president who comes to appoint these persons to positions now becomes the one to be lashed? This is ridiculous. I think that we must draw the line. If we walk on the path of morality I think we\u2019ll be missing the gun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law says that a person who has been convicted may be granted free and unconditional pardon by the president. The former president knowing the consequences of all of these with his legal advisers decided he will grant a pardon for whatever reason,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Dadzie added: \u201cIt could also be that probably they realised an error in the trial, it could also be that for the purposes of stability of the state they decided to let bygones be bygones. Pardon is a very important function of the constitution and stability of the state. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the propaganda secretary of the NDC Richard Quashigah on Citi Eyewitness News accused the national convener of the FPA D. M Ofori-Atta as a relative of New Patriotic Party\u2019s Nana Akuffo-Addo and on a mission to soil the image of president Atta-Mills.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A former Chief of Staff Nana Ato Dadzie has said it is \u201cfundamentally wrong\u201d and \u201cridiculous\u201d for anyone to flak president John Evans Atta-Mills for appointing pardoned former public officials to head key positions in his present government. <\/p>\n","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-489264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;It\u2019s Ridiculous To Say Sipa Yankey And Abodakpi Are Ex-Convicts&quot; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/10\/11\/its-ridiculous-to-say-sipa-yankey-and-abodakpi-are-ex-convicts\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&quot;It\u2019s Ridiculous To Say Sipa Yankey And Abodakpi Are Ex-Convicts&quot; - 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