In the palavar issue Vol.9 No. 74 of Tuesday, July 8 to Thursday, Jul10, 2003, under the headline “coming Attractions-other NPP Corruption Scandals, it was reported being rumoured at Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning that the Minister, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has issued a guarantee on a loan to a woman, the circumstances of which make the Quality Grain Affair look like Chicken Feed.

The paper says “we do not know whether there is a connection, but last Monday, Radio Gold’s Kokonsa” on his “Kokonsa Reporting” programme, raised issues about a certain mysterious lady whose mysterious dealing with the Minister of Finance are raising a lot of eyebrows and raising questions without getting any answers.