News:
June 14, 2011
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Adenta, Kojo Adu Asare has called on President John Evas Attah Mills to reinstate Dr George Sipa Yankey into the ruling NDC government.
According to the MP, Dr Sipa Yankey with the quality he is made of is a good material for any President to work with in any government.
The former Minister of Health and another, resigned in the wake of the Mabey and Johnson bribery scandal against him and other public officials, stating he was innocent of the allegations, but had to resign to end attacks on President John Evans Atta Mills and his government to allow them room to concentrate on their work.
Dr Yankey resigned his position mainly to “fight” the Mabey and Johnson case and also to enable him clear his name, declaring: “I have never taken a bribe”.
President Attah Mills after receiving the resignation letter directed an investigation into allegations of bribery against Ghanaian public officials in the said case.
However investigations conducted by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Police Service set up under the direction of the Attorney General (AG) has cleared the seven former government officials after its inability to make contacts with Mr Myles Potter, the representative of M&J in Ghana and a materials witness in the case, because M&J has since closed its offices in Ghana and that there were no information on him and Mr Danny Annan, an Agent of M& J and another material agent who is deceased.
Contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM, the Member of Parliament for Adenta, commended Dr Yankey for the matured manner in which he reacted to the allegations leveled against him.
“I admire this man so much, he never made any public statement about the issue even though his integrity was being questioned in the media and other places, but he kept his cool and stepped aside for investigations to be done, now that he’s been cleared it is my humble plea, that the President reinstates him” he said.
He added that Ghanaians attest to the wonderful works Dr Sipa Yankey was doing when he was at the helm of affairs and that it would be in Ghana’s best interest to fix him somewhere in government to contribute his quota to the development of the country.
Story by : Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh