{"id":586137,"date":"2019-01-17T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p> <strong>Yaw Buabeng Asamoah <\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has\nexposed the propaganda being mounted by the opposition National Democratic\nCongress (NDC) in the raging Menzgold Ghana Limited scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<"},"modified":"2019-01-17T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:57:18","slug":"npp-lambasts-ndc-over-menzgold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/17\/npp-lambasts-ndc-over-menzgold\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP Lambasts NDC Over Menzgold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <strong>Yaw Buabeng Asamoah <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has<br \/>\nexposed the propaganda being mounted by the opposition National Democratic<br \/>\nCongress (NDC) in the raging Menzgold Ghana Limited scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the NPP charge against the NDC<br \/>\nyesterday in a press conference was Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, the Communications<br \/>\nDirector of the party, who said the opposition party has a reckless and<br \/>\nunproductive mindset whose earlier engagement with the media was used to heap<br \/>\npolitical lies on the ruling party. He appeared to relish the Andrew Solomon<br \/>\nbit when he asked that should former President John Mahama be described as a gay<br \/>\nif he is spotted in bed with Andrew Solomon?<\/p>\n<p>He said the NDC used their press<br \/>\nconference for empty propaganda at a time when they should be commiserating<br \/>\nwith the victims of Menzgold.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP, he indicated, is a party which<br \/>\nbelieves in the rule of law and would do all it can in that direction, adding that<br \/>\nthe law enforcement agency would deal with the issue of Menzgold whose genesis<br \/>\ncan be traced to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the information of the NDC and its<br \/>\nclueless leadership,\u201d he said \u201cthey were in power at the time when NAM1 started<br \/>\nthe company. When the company changed its name and status to a bank, the NDC<br \/>\ngovernment should have been alerted to the fact that something was wrong. They<br \/>\ndid not do anything about the unfolding trouble because the party stood to<br \/>\nbenefit from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Buabeng Asamoah described as a twisted<br \/>\nlogic the NDC accusation in relation to the Menzgold saga which accusation was<br \/>\npresented by the opposition party\u2019s Communications Director, Sammy Gymafi.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC, he went on, did not know that it<br \/>\ncould act upon the Menzgold unfolding mess and watched on as it grew.<\/p>\n<p>He derided the NDC\u2019s suggestion on how to<br \/>\ndeal with Menzgold when during their tenure they did not do same.<\/p>\n<p>In narrating what the NPP did when the<br \/>\ndanger posed by the illegalities of the Menzgold operations was discovered, Mr.<br \/>\nBuabeng Asamoah recalled how in February 2017 under a serious government, as he<br \/>\nput it, a meeting was held with the company after a previous one. <\/p>\n<p>The state regulator, Bank of Ghana (BoG),<br \/>\nhe said issued a letter in July asking Menzgold to cease operations in the area<br \/>\nof deposit-taking after they had switched to Menzgold from their earlier<br \/>\nstatus.<\/p>\n<p>The apex bank, he continued, did not rest<br \/>\non its oars in ensuring that the right things were done when it wrote a letter<br \/>\nto the Minerals Commission in a correspondence dated 19<sup>th<\/sup> September<br \/>\n2017 asking it to take action against the illegality; that was the Menzgold<br \/>\noperations.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP government, he insisted, is a<br \/>\nresponsible one and only demanded of Menzgold to meet its regulatory<br \/>\nrequirements and did not shut it down as being peddled by the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NDC should be kind to the people who<br \/>\nhave been affected by the Menzgold issue by desisting from the litany of lies<br \/>\nit is spewing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiquidation in the manner the NDC<br \/>\ncommunications chief put it does not imply that government should pay the<br \/>\ninvestors of Menzgold.\u201d The NDC, he repeated, \u201cis only trying to politicize the<br \/>\nsituation out of nothing. It is so insensitive.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The NPP is wondering why the NDC would<br \/>\ndrag the name of the President into the Menzgold saga and feed both Ghanaians<br \/>\nand foreigners with lies.<\/p>\n<p>Menzgold, he said, is one of the problems<br \/>\nthe NDC bequeathed the NPP to address alongside the banking crisis, road funds<br \/>\nchallenges and the crisis in the health sector which the government has<br \/>\nsufficiently addressed.<\/p>\n<p>In buttressing the NPP government\u2019s belief in the rule of law, he said emphatically that \u201cwe will allow the law to work and in doing so nobody will be shielded\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By MelvinTarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/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>Yaw Buabeng Asamoah The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has exposed the propaganda being mounted by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the raging Menzgold Ghana Limited scandal. 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