Ishmael Mensah Blog of Thursday, 12 December 2024
Source: Ishmael Mensah
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the North Tongu member of parliament, has claimed that three important players in the contentious $108 million ambulance deal had left Ghana in the days leading up to the elections on December 7. "Stephen Okereke Elendu Kalu Okoro, Frank Agyekum Boateng, and Vivian Oppong Kyekyeku—three key players in the notorious US$108 million Akufo-Addo daughters' ambulance sweetheart deal—have all left Ghana," Ablakwa said in a post on the X platform.
On November 27, 2024, "Stephen Okoro, the long-time special business partner of Gyankroma Akufo-Addo and Edwina Akufo-Addo," left the country on British Airways bound for the United Kingdom, according to Ablakwa's article.
According to the MP, Okoro is a director of Elok Consult and Services Limited, one of the businesses engaged in the transaction, and he displayed two passports: one from Ghana and one from Nigeria.Additionally, Ablakwa stated that "Mr.
Frank Agyekum Boateng" left Ghana a day earlier, on November 26, 2024, for Washington aboard a United Airlines flight. Boateng is linked to BEFT Engineering, another company associated with the ambulance deal. In addition, "Vivian Oppong Kyekyeku," who is associated with Luxury World Auto Group Limited, took a Delta aircraft to New York in August 2024. According to Ablakwa, she gave both a U.S.
and gave immigration officials a Ghanaian passport; he hasn't been back in Ghana since.Ablakwa stressed that the people "did not return on December 7 to vote" and cautioned that international action would be required to find the people who had left the country. He said, "The Ghanaian people shall have the accountability they have been yearning for," as he wrapped up.