{"id":445491,"date":"2017-12-10T08:41:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T08:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/10\/nana-addo-wrong-to-endorse-suspicious-jospong-casely-hayford\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T08:41:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T08:41:06","slug":"nana-addo-wrong-to-endorse-suspicious-jospong-casely-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/10\/nana-addo-wrong-to-endorse-suspicious-jospong-casely-hayford\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo wrong to endorse \u2018suspicious\u2019 Jospong \u2013 Casely Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Sunday, 10 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-10<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/56699034.295.jpg\" alt=\"Casely Hayford Sydney\" title=\"Casely Hayford Sydney\" width=\"295\" height=\"173\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Sydney Casely Hayford<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512895266_425_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s praise of the founder of the Jospong Group of Companies, Joseph Siaw Agyepong in November, was completely wrong, according to anti-corruption campaigner, Sydney Casely Hayford.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was brought under the spotlight on The Big Issue after the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo\u2019s assertion during the week that the President must not be seen to be condoning acts of corruption, of which Jospong has been accused of.<\/p>\n<p>Mindful of the fact Jospong has not been indicted for any acts of corruption, Mr. Casely-Hayford said the mere fact a shadow hangs over the operations of Jospong should have compelled the President to keep his distance from the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026So when my President gets up and goes to a facility of someone who is suspected of not having done business in a proper manner and you go and stand in his facility, the fact that you are there gives it an endorsement. You are endorsing the man\u2019s operations. That for me is a complete no no. You don\u2019t do things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Ghana is \u201ctoo fond of trying to cover up and trying to give the coverups that we do [different names] and the stark reality is that people are involved in stealing monies and we like to give it different labels in order to make it look like something more than that. We call it corruption instead of calling it stealing, which is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Zoomlion and GYEEDA scandal<\/p>\n<p>Some of Jospong\u2019s dealings with the government have been subject to suspicion following the revelation of scandals involving companies under its umbrella.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOf personal concern to Mr. Casely-Hayford is the handling of the malfeasance at the erstwhile Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA).<\/p>\n<p>Some companies, including Jospong\u2019s Zoomlion Ghana, were engaged to render services to the country under the social intervention programme which has undergone a number of transformations over the years, and is now called the Youth Employment Agency (YEA).<\/p>\n<p>The YEA recently directed Zoomlion to furnish it with a database of some 45,000 beneficiaries under the agency\u2019s sanitation module amid concerns over ghost names.<\/p>\n<p>Following reports of mismanagement of state funds, the government in 2012 tasked a committee to investigate the activities of GYEEDA.<\/p>\n<p>Though Jospong maintains its innocence in the matter, the investigative Committee\u2019s report stated that Zoomlion acquired as much GHc500 from government to be given to each worker under the programme but only paid them GHc100, keeping the rest for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Zoomlion lobbied the Minister of Local Government to increase their rates from GHc350 to GHc500, but GHc400 of the money stayed with Zoomlion as management fees.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee\u2019s analysis of a schedule provided by Zoomlion to support the management fees highlighted serious value for money issues.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>No action on petition to CHRAJ<\/p>\n<p>In November 2013, Mr. Casely Hayford petioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) after in the investigations into GYEEDA were completed because he felt the committee had not done a thorough job.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBut five years on, and numerous reminders later, he said he is yet to get a response from CHRAJ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy petition to CHRAJ was based on the conclusion of the committee\u2019s report which said it didn\u2019t have enough time to complete the investigations and they were not able to into the regions and the districts,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI petitioned CHRAJ and said go and carry on the investigation and run it to its formal conclusion\u2026 every month I send them a letter reminding them that they have not responded to my petition complete the investigation on the GYEDA thing and they never say anything and they never reply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OZ8yITNSjLU\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzY_effMHHE\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Sunday, 10 December 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-12-10 Sydney Casely Hayford President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s praise of the founder of the Jospong Group of Companies, Joseph Siaw Agyepong in November, was completely wrong, according to anti-corruption campaigner, Sydney Casely Hayford. 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