{"id":1255459,"date":"2022-11-22T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T08:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/22\/duffuor-was-a-shareholder-in-unibank-and-finance-minister-simultaneously-haruna-mohammed-counters-ndc\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T08:41:10","slug":"duffuor-was-a-shareholder-in-unibank-and-finance-minister-simultaneously-haruna-mohammed-counters-ndc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/22\/duffuor-was-a-shareholder-in-unibank-and-finance-minister-simultaneously-haruna-mohammed-counters-ndc\/","title":{"rendered":"Duffuor was a shareholder in Unibank and Finance Minister simultaneously &#8211; Haruna Mohammed counters NDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Dr-Kwabena-Duffuor-suit-case\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dr-Kwabena-Duffuor-suit-case.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dr-Kwabena-Duffuor-suit-case.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Dr-Kwabena-Duffuor-suit-case\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>A Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Haruna Mohammed has said that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta cannot be accused of conflict of interest because he resigned as a director of his bank, Databank.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He expressed surprise at the posture of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) regarding the allegation made against Mr Ofor-Atta.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Big Issue on TV3 with Berla Mundi on Tuesday November 22, he indicated that former Finance Minister Dr\u00a0 Kwabena Duffuor was a shareholder in Unibank and\u00a0 Finance Minister concurrently but that was not an issue for the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy virtue of his appointment Ken Ofori-Atta decided to resign as a Director of Databank,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NDC, when Dr Duffuor was a shareholder in Unibank and at the same time a Finance Minister, what was their position? Duffuor was a shareholder, I am just bringing it up for people to be know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to him, private legal practitioner who is also a member of the NDC, Godwin Edudzi Tameklo said \u201cDufuor\u2019s equalization doesn\u2019t do justice to the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NDC Minority in Parliament made a number of allegations against Mr Ofori-Atta fpr which they are seeking to remove hi from Office.<\/p>\n<p>The accusations are \u201cDespicable conflict of Interest ensuring that he directly benefits from Ghana\u2019s economic woes as his companies receive commissions and other unethical contractual advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Unconstitutional withdrawals from the Consolidated Fund in blatant contravention of Article 178 of the 1992 Constitution supposedly for the construction of the President\u2019s Cathedral;<\/p>\n<p>Deliberate and dishonest misreporting of economic data to Parliament Fiscal recklessness leading to the crash of the Ghana Cedi which is currently the worst performing currency in the world;<\/p>\n<p>Alarming incompetence and frightening ineptitude resulting in the collapse of the Ghanaian economy and on excruciating cost of living crisis; Gross mismanagement of the economy which has occasioned untold and unprecedented hardship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Haruna Mohammed has said that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta cannot be accused of conflict of interest because he resigned as a director of his bank, Databank. He expressed surprise at the posture of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) regarding the allegation made against Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[22974,9063,457,3281,1223,17,680,7085,29186,7613],"class_list":{"0":"post-1255459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-counters","9":"tag-duffuor","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-haruna","12":"tag-minister","13":"tag-mohammed","14":"tag-ndc","15":"tag-shareholder","16":"tag-simultaneously","17":"tag-unibank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}