Accra, April 18, 2018//-The work of the Acting Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah has been cut out for her after this paper uncovered the fact that sixty-seven (67) Ministers in the current Akufo-Addo government have received double rent!
DCOP Addo-Danquah is currently investigating allegations that some appointees in the Mahama government who were also Members of Parliament (MPs) received double salaries.
Accusing these former appointees of stealing, she has already invited three of them for investigations and granted them bail as investigations continue. Now, 67 of Akufo-Addo’s Ministers have appeared in the same net.
Investigations carried out by this paper reveals that in March 2017, these MPs who are also Ministers received GH¢ 84,000 ( ¢840 million) each as rent allowance even though they were not entitled to it because they had been allocated state bungalows. Only MPs who are not Ministers or who are Ministers but do not have state bungalows are entitled to rent allowance.
Below is the list of the 67 Ministers who have received double rent allowance;
- Abena Osei-Asare- Deputy Minister for Finance
- Abubakar Boniface Siddique – Minister for Inner Cities and Zongo Development
- Alima Mahama – Minister for Local Government and Rural Development
- Ambrose Dery – Minister for Interior
- Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi – Deputy Minister for Railway Development
- Anthony Akoto Osei – Ministry for Monitoring and Evaluation
- Anthony Karbo – Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways
- Barbara Asher Ayisi – Deputy Minister for Education
- Barbara Oteng-Gyasi – Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources
- Benito Owusu-Bio – Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources
- Bright Wireko-Brobby – Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations
- Bryan Acheampong – Minister of State at the Office of the President
- Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah – Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry
- Catherine Ablema Afeku- Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts
15 Daniel Kweku Botwe – Minister for Regional Reorganisation and Development
- Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover- Deputy Minister for Transport
- Dominic Bingab Aduna Nitiwul – Minister for Defence
- Elizabeth Afoley Quaye – Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Eric Kwakye Darfour – Minister for Eastern Region
- Eugene Boakye Antwi- Deputy Minister for Works and Housing
- Evans Bobie Opoku – Deputy Minister for Brong Ahafo Region
- Francis Kingsley Ato Cudjoe – Deputy Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Frank Fuseini Adong – Deputy Minister for Upper East
24 Freda Prempeh – Deputy Minister for Works and Housing
- George Boahen Oduro – Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture
- George Nenyi Andah – Deputy Minister for Communications
- George Yaw Gyan-Baffour- Minister for Planning
- Gifty Twum-Ampofo – Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection
- Henry Quartey – Deputy Minister for Interior
- Ignatius Bafuor Awuah – Minister of Employment and Labour Relations
- Isaac Kwame Asiamah – Minister for Youth and Sports
- Joe Ghartey – Minister for Railway Development
- Joseph Cudjoe – Deputy Minister for Energy and Petroleum
- Joseph Dindiok Kpemka – Deputy Minister for Office of Attorney General and Ministry of Justice 35.Joseph Kofi Adda – Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources
- Joseph Tetteh – Deputy Minister for Eastern Region
- Kingsley Aboagye-Gyedu – Deputy Minister for Health
- Kojo Oppong Nkrumah – Deputy Minister for Information
- Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah – Deputy Minister for Aviation
- Kwabena Owusu Aduomi – Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways
- Kwaku Afriyie – Deputy Minister for Western Region
- Kwaku Agyemang-Manu – Minister for Health
- Kwaku Agyenim-Boateng – Deputy Minister for Railway Development
- Kwasi Amoako-Attah – Minister for Roads and Highways
- Kwasi Boateng Adjei – Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development
- Matthew Opoku Prempeh – Minister for Education
- Mavis Hawa Koomson – Minister for Special Development Initiative
- Michael Yaw Gyato – Deputy Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources
- Mohammad Habibu Tijani – Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Nana Dokua Asiamah-Adjei – Deputy Minister for Information
51.Osei Bonsu Amoah – Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development
- Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu – Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
- Patricia Appiagyei – Deputy Minister for Environment, Science and Technology
- Patrick Yaw Boamah – Deputy Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources
- Paul Essien – Deputy Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs5
- Sagre Bambangi – Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture
- Samuel Atta Akyea – Minister for Works and Housing
- Sarah Adwoa Safo – Minister of State at the Office of the President in charge of Public Procurement, 59.Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey – Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Solomon Namliit Boar – Deputy Minister for Northern Region
61.Tina Gifty Naa Ayeley Mensah – Deputy Minister for Health
- Ursula Owusu Ekuful – Minister for Communications
- Vincent Sowah Odotei – Deputy Minister for Communications
- William Agyapong Quaittoo – Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture
- William Owuraku Aidoo – Deputy Minister for Energy and Petroleum
- Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister for Education
- Ziblim Barri Iddi – Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts
With the A-PLUS tape in mind in which she was heard saying she (and A-Plus) must cover corrupt acts that had engulfed the seat of government, the Flagstaff House under President Akufo-Addo, the general public will be watching keenly if DCOP Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah will show she is a professional police woman and conduct same investigations into this matter as she is doing in the matter of the alleged double payment of salaries to former appointees of the Mahama government.
More Anon!
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