The Ghana Government together with other un-suspecting state governments in Nigeria have been negotiating and finalising IPP Projects with a well known international fraudster pictured above, Emmanuel Katto.

Katto's latest scam is now Power Projects using a company called Transdanubia Power Ltd. Any child who cares to do the most basic due diligence checks, will discover the following, Katto has defrauded the Kenyan & Ugandan Governments in the recent past by supplying “junk helicopters” and taking monies without rendering any or proper goods or services he contracted to do.

Katto signed contracts, purporting not to take monies up-front, instead took promissory notes, encashed them without supplying any goods or services & on the occassion he did supply, he supplied “junk helicopters that were not air-worthy and could not fly” at crazy inflated prices defrauding millions of US Dollars from Kenya and Uganda.
Several international investigations revealed he had collaborated with some officials to dupe his own country and neighbouring Kenya using the same scam.

Ghanaians and Nigerians should be very careful of this man who obviously has no morals or scruples and who strangely enough is now penetrating Nigerian State governments with the help of some prominent Nigerian Businessmen having first done so in Ghana with the help of an introduction by Lord David Steel to President Kufuor last year in April 2007.

The following factual articles are available for all to see on Google, if you simply put in his name, Emmanuel Katto :
1) The Arms Fixers.
2) Military Copters Condemned by S.African Firm.
3) Sebutinde takes tough look to Sierra Leone.

This is an extract from the article,”Military Copters Condemned by S.African Firm.

Regional News
August 3 - 9 , 1998
Military Copters Condemned by S. African Firm
By LEVI OCHIENG SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

SA Experts Expose Helicopter Scandal
AN INDEPENDENT report by a South African firm appointed by the Uganda government to investigate allegations of fraud in the purchase of four second hand combat helicopters has revealed that they were not airworthy and that the sale agreement was seriously breached.

Sources told The EastAfrican last week that Uganda's Ministry of Justice was planning to take legal action against the supplier, Consolidated Sales Corporation (CSC). The company, registered in the British Virgin Islands, is reportedly owned by Ugandan rally ace Emmanuel Katto.
However, the sources said, legal proceedings could be avoided if CSC supplied another four genuine helicopters the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces, who urgently need them. The sources said the helicopters supplied could not be used.

Officials, including the Permanent Secretary for Defence, Dr Ben Mbonye, confirmed that Haines Helicopters of South Africa had already submitted their findings to the Ministry of Justice to study and take action.

Although Dr Mbonye declined to discuss the contents of the report, sources said it dealt with the mechanical condition of the four MI 24 helicopters which the Uganda government purchased at $12,266,500 in April last year from the Republic of Belarus.

Only two of the combat aircraft were delivered to Uganda but are grounded at the Air Force base at Entebbe International Airport. The whereabouts of the others is not clear.

Attorney-General Bart Katureebe also confirmed last Friday that he had received the assessors' report and raised legal queries with the suppliers for allegedly breaching the sale agreement.
He said he received the report on July 24 from the Ministry of Defence and representatives of Consolidated Sales Corporation (CSC) in Uganda, Mr Katto, and their lawyer, Mr Samuel Bitangaro.
The two, the Attorney-General said, had agreed with the government that the South African assessors be appointed to establish whether the helicopters were overhauled as per the sales agreement.

Said Mr Katureebe: "I have raised the matter with the suppliers. We shall take action depending on their reply. I do not want to prejudice what legal action we shall take but the long and short of it is that the conditions of the contract were not fulfilled. The government wanted fully overhauled helicopters."

The assessors' report, he said, raised a number of serious legal is sues which the government intended to follow up depending on the suppliers' reply.

"This was a total breach of the contract," Mr Katureebe said.
The Government has also conceded that the $12,266,500 paid for the four helicopters was inflated. Each cost about $1.5 million.

State House gave the breakdown of the cost as spare parts, $900,000, specialised tools and equipment, $294,250, training $600,000 and freight, $300,000.

Other costs are de-commissioning, $308,000, weaponry and armaments, $3,088,800, freight for consumables, $600,000 and grand maintenance vehicles, $130,000 and miscellaneous expenses.
Fifty per cent was to be paid up front. The Ugandan government paid by promissory notes which by April 1997, had been encashed, according to State House.

On July 13, President Yoweri Museveni's Senior Presidential Adviser on Media and Public Relations, Mr John Nagenda, issued a statement on his behalfsaying CSC was introduced to the Uganda People's Defence Forces by an impeccable contact he did not name. Dr Mbonye also declined to name the person.

The State House statement, however, indicated that CSC approached the military with the offer to supply the four helicopters, promising to provide full specifications and documentation after fully overhauling them.

Said the statement: "Standard manuals refer to full overhaul to mean 1,000 flying hours for the airframe and 800 for engines or eight years...but even the minimum 100 hours of flying had elapsed by the time the helicopters arrived in March 1998."

It was later established that CSC, which is registered in the Virgin Islands, is owned by Mr Katto.
Negotiations with UPDF were carried out by Mr Chris Smith, who re ferred to himself as the director of CSC but is known to the Ugandan High Commission in London as a public relations consultant, while Mr Katto was said to be CSC's Uganda representative.  Continued    Source: James Smith