Accra (Palaver) -- Over the last five weeks, The Insight has been painstakingly investigating the conviction of A Peter Mac Manu for immigration fraud and illegal importation of currency into the United States of America.

Our (Palaver) investigations have taken us to the National Headquarters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), New York, the Passport Office in Accra and libraries in both Ghana and the USA.

What we have firmly established is that a Peter Mac Manu, who is a Ghanaian, has been convicted twice in the USA.

There is still some substantial doubt over who the Peter Mac Manu could be.

The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr. Peter Mac Manu denies flatly that he is not the chap who was convicted in the USA.

Interestingly, a Ghanaian living in New York has come forward to claim that he is the Peter Mac Manu who was convicted.

A Ghanaian passport issued to this Peter Mac Akwasi Manu 2006 bears the number H1076760.

The date of birth of this Peter Mac Akwasi Manu as indicated in the passport is December 19, 1956.

Incidentally, this same date of birth is recorded in one of the passports of Mr. Peter Mac Manu, National Chairman of the NPP as his date of birth.

There is however a note in the passport which refers to page 20 of the same passport where the date of birth has been changed or corrected to read December 19, 1953.

The Peter Mac Manu resident in New York has a green card with the words “RESIDENT ALIEN” boldly printed on it.

His green card number is A040396697 and it was supposed to expire on September 9, 2006.

Court proceedings available to The Insight indicate that the convicted Peter Mac Manu was to be banned from entering the US without permission.

The circumstances under which the Peter Mac Manu resident in the US claims to be the one who was convicted and is still resident in the USA is not clear.

So far the investigations carried out by The Insight suggest very strongly that the National Chairman of the NPP has a double who is resident in New York.

(Culled from “The Insight”, Vol. 12 No. 606, Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th February 2007)