{"id":6595,"date":"2013-01-22T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/the-irs-must-investigate-krachiwura-besemuna-iii\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:40:00","slug":"the-irs-must-investigate-krachiwura-besemuna-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/22\/the-irs-must-investigate-krachiwura-besemuna-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRS must investigate Krachiwura Besemuna III"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Feature Article of Monday, 21 January 2013<\/p>\n

Columnist:<\/strong> Gyamerah, Michael<\/a><\/p>\n

“The IRS must investigate Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna III\u2019s \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants\u201d and Messrs KODJO ABBAN & CO. (Chartered Surveyors) for possible tax evasion”<\/p>\n

In my article published on Ghanaweb on 14th January, 2013, I called upon the Government of Ghana (GoG) to investigate as a matter of urgency payment of taxpayer\u2019s money to a possible \u201cshell\u201d association referred to as \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants\u201d chaired by Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna III. The payments were started in 2010 and may finally lead to huge financial loss to the state of over GHc 15 million. Documents made available to the writer (see Attachments IA and IB, and II: The research carried out by this writer and documents made available to the writer (http:\/\/www.spyghana.com\/?p=311031) clearly showed that GHc 1,237,721.00 was paid to the so-called \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants\u201d chaired by Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna III as the 15% of the third tranche of the Flooded Lands Compensation payments made by GoG to the affected communities. The \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants\u201d chaired by Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna had the following objective \u201c..establish a reimbursable fund which shall be used to facilitate and procure an early, expeditious and timely release and payment by GoG of the agreed tranches of compensation. The fund shall be paid into and kept in a bank account\u201d.The question I posed at the time in the article was: since the GoG started paying the compensation in tranches (the first being made in 2009) before the so-called \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants,\u201d chaired by Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna III, was formed what \u201cfacilat[ing]\u201d is required for the GoG to pay debt it owes these impoverished communities? I went further to point out that the \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants\u201d objective is akin to \u201cfacilitating\u201d (euphemism of paying bribes to) employees of an insurance company to which one has paid their premiums in order for the company to pay what is due them for a loss of property that had been insured.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the documents made available to this writer (http:\/\/www.spyghana.com\/?p=311031) also shows that 60% of the first tranche compensation payment was paid to Messrs KODJO ABBAN & CO., who were supposed to be chartered surveyorsas consultation fee. The surveyor\u2019s fee alone based on the total compensation will amount to GHc 13,833,606.80 (which is over 138 billion old Ghana cedis). In addition, this writer\u2019s research revealed that the signature of one Nana Diawuo Bediako II, purportedly representing Pai Traditional area, one of the affected communities, on the Lands Valuation Board\u2019s Pay Voucher (for the payment tothe so-called \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants,\u201d chaired by Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna III), was completely different from that on the letter written by JSA Corporate & Legal Consult to the Executive Secretary of Lands Valuation Board stating that 60% of the first tranche compensation payment be made to the Surveyor. This discrepancy thus compromises the integrity of these payments. This writer further questions an arrangement where 60% of the part payment of the compensation or even 10% of the total compensation from GoG amounting to approximately GHc 13.8 million (138 billion old Ghana cedis) should be paid to the Surveyor.<\/p>\n

This now brings this writer to the following questions which should immediately involve the IRS:<\/p>\n

1. Did Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna IIIand his so-called \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants\u201d pay any taxes to the IRS on the GHc 1,237,721.00 paid to their \u201cVL REIMBURSABLE FUND\u201d as 15% of the third tranche of the Flooded Lands Compensation payments?<\/p>\n

2. DidMessrs KODJO ABBAN & CO. (Chartered Surveyors) pay taxes to the IRS on theirconsultation fee constituting 60% of the first tranche payment of the compensation or other subsequent payments from the GoG?<\/p>\n

It is the considered opinion of this writer that the IRS should get involved and investigate whether any tax laws were broken by the \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants\u201d chaired by Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna III),and the consulting surveyor Messrs KODJO ABBAN & CO. (Chartered Surveyors).<\/p>\n

About the Author: The Author\u2019s interests are history of Ghana, economic history and political economy. He may be contacted at mgyamerah2002@yahoo.com<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feature Article of Monday, 21 January 2013 Columnist: Gyamerah, Michael “The IRS must investigate Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna III\u2019s \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants\u201d and Messrs KODJO ABBAN & CO. (Chartered Surveyors) for possible tax evasion”In my article published on Ghanaweb on 14th January, 2013, I called upon the Government of Ghana (GoG) to investigate as a matter of urgency payment of taxpayer\u2019s money to a possible \u201cshell\u201d association referred to as \u201cAssociation of VR Flooded Lands Compensation Claimants\u201d chaired by Krachiwura Nana Mprah Besemuna III. …<\/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-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}