Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Ghanaian movie star caught with State car
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Ghanaian National
Security operatives have caught popular movie actor John Dumelo with a vehicle
belonging to the state and retrieved it from a spraying shop.
Dumelo
was allegedly attempting to conceal the identity of the black V8 Toyota Land
Cruiser with registration GE 8118 –16 when the operatives pounced on it at a
garage at Abelemkpe in Accra where it had purportedly been sent for
re-spraying.
The
vehicle, with chassis number JTMHVOJ2F4159829, 2015 model with full option, has
been parked at the Office of the President Annex for almost one month.
When
the operatives invited him to the garage, he reportedly panicked and shook like
rain-beaten chick, before surrendering the expensive vehicle without any
protest.
The
operatives, upon a tip-off, swooped on the garage a couple of weeks ago and got
hold of the auto mechanic who told them that the vehicle belonged to John
Dumelo.
He
was then telephoned to come to the garage and upon arrival, he’s reported to
have first said that he bought the V8 from a car dealer, Svani Company Limited,
and claimed he was yet to complete the payment.
The
operatives then keyed in the chassis number into a centralized computer system
but the results showed that the vehicle was registered in the name of the
National Security Secretariat which is a property of the Government of Ghana.
Sensing
he was getting into trouble, he’s reported to have quickly changed his story,
claiming that it was former First Lady Lordina Mahama who had given the V8 to
him.
The
security operatives immediately decided to crosscheck from the First Lady to
ascertain the facts but the actor (Dumelo) reportedly pleaded with them to stop
and just take the vehicle away.
The
operatives’ checks at Svani Motors along the Spintex Road indicated that the
company imported the vehicle for the National Security Council Secretariat and
that the company is one of the several auto dealers used by the government to
import vehicles for the state.
When
the security personnel got to the garage, the vehicle had been dismantled and
was going through re-modeling, including re-spraying – with parts allegedly
imported from Dubai.
John
Dumelo was said to have brought some spare parts from Dubai to enhance the
looks of the vehicle.
DAILY GUIDE sources say he reportedly got two V8s from
the NDC government, with his girlfriend driving one of them.
When
he was asked to direct the operatives to the whereabouts of the other vehicle,
he pleaded with them to allow him to travel to London and return to produce it.
According
to sources, Dumelo had released the other V8 which is believed to be ash in
colour to his girlfriend who is currently using it. He told the operatives that
he was going to return it after the girlfriend had returned from a trip she had
used it for. As at press time yesterday, the second vehicle had not been
returned.
Dumelo’s Reaction
When
he was reached via telephone for his comments yesterday, John Dumelo said, “I
wouldn’t like to comment about it.”
In
2012, he appeared subtly in the NDC campaign that saw Mr. Mahama winning the
election in a controversial fashion following the sudden death of President
John Evans Atta Mills.
He
was very active during the 2016 election which sent the NDC packing into
opposition; he was seen on several platforms campaigning for the party prior to
the poll.
He
was reportedly appointed operations director for ‘Agenda For Mahama’ – a
pro-NDC youth group – and was given unfettered access to the various senior
high schools (SHS) to campaign for President Mahama, although the NDC
government had made it look as if he was on tour to campaign for a peaceful
election.
De-Facto Youth Leader
At
a point the NDC turned John Dumelo into a de-facto NDC National Youth Organizer
and was made to speak at party programmes even after people like the founder,
Jerry John Rawlings, had addressed the crowd.
He
emphatically stated that then NPP flag bearer and now president, Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo, could never be president because Mr. Mahama was going to
retain power.
One
of his Twitter
followers asked him ,“@johndumelo1 what do you think about nana addo becoming
the president of Ghana?” and this was John’s response:
“I
have nothing against Nana Addo, but I only see one person being sworn in come
January 2017 and it’s not him (Nana).”
Missing Vehicles
Last
week, J. Ayikoi Otoo who was the Chairman of the Asset and Vehicles Committee
for the NPP’s side of the transition team, confirmed that about 234 vehicles
out of the list of over 700 vehicles presented to the NPP government by the
opposition NDC were missing.
“We
were able to identify 67 vehicles not listed, and so if you deduct the 67
vehicles from the 301 missing vehicles, we still have 234 vehicles that could
not be accounted for so the figure that came from Mr. Arhin’s office is
correct, and if they want me as the Chair to confirm, I am confirming, and I am
saying the figure is over 200,” he told the presidential press corps.
By William Yaw Owusu
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