Metro Mass Transport ‘Wahala’: Minister hides report and lies to President Mahama

Some concerned staff of the Metro Mass Transport (MMT) service have accused the Minister for Transport, Honorable Dzifa Ativor, of shielding the audit report on the Company and blatantly lying to the Presidency. Government recently contracted PwC Ghana, an audit company, to investigate the operations of the MMT service as well as the causes of the alleged missing MMT Buses as reported in the media some month ago.

Spy News Agency’s sources have gathered that the said report is ready and has been submitted to the sector Minister since April 28, 2015. However, for strange reasons, the Minister has refused to make the report public or take action on the recommendations there in, claiming she wants to “manage the resistance of the workers leadership,” else there would continue to be agitations should the Deputy Managing Director be brought back to the company as recommended in the report.

The Minister is further alleged to have told President Mahama recently that the audit report “is not ready” claiming that she was yet to receive the report. This was when the President sought from her an update on the issue. It is unclear why Hon. Ativor is deliberately protecting the report but some of the aggrieved staff of the MMT and members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are not happy with the development and calling for the report to be made public immediately or they will agitate against management.

Spy News Agency has gathered that the audit report by PwC has been penned down for discussion at a hurriedly organized meeting of the leadership of the workers union of MMT scheduled for Thursday, May 21, 2015. The meeting will also discuss the current state of the MMT among others and the aggrieved workers are wondering why the Minister would leak the report to the union leaders but refuse to give a copy to the President of the Nation upon request.

In a strong worded petition to the Minister earlier and copied to the Chief of Staff, the National Security Coordinator and the National Chairman of the NDC, the aggrieved workers demanded among others that the Minister acts fast on the recommendations of the report and restructure MMT in the interest of the nation.

“We have just been reliably informed that, PwC has just submitted their report to you. Please madam, if this information is true, we would like to humbly appeal to you to kindly fast-track the process of reconstituting the governing Board for the company, and also to take a firm decision on the set-aside Executive Management members.”

The group says they disagree with calls by the leaders of the workers union that led to the dismissal of the then Board Chairman Osabarima Ansah Sasraku III and the Deputy Managing Director, Ing. John Awuku Dzuazah since the allegations against them have not been substantiated.

“we strongly believe that, your prompt intervention in this mess being created by our union leaders and indeed, their NPP allies is crucially necessary in order to set the records straight in the eyes of the Ghanaian people, as soon as the PwC investigative report is submitted to your outfit, please. We believe that the investigative work of the PwC should be made public because of the involvements of some persons or groups of persons in the events before, during and after the strike action embarked upon by the workers of Metro Mass Transit Limited,” the petition stated.

Among other issues the aggrieved workers are asking that the investigative report of PwC be made public so as to clear the government’s name in the whole MMT MISSING BUSES SAGA. “This is because, the impression is being created out there in the minds of majority of Ghanaians that the NDC government’s appointees at the helm of affairs at MMT superintended over the illegal sale of company assets (buses) to their party cronies or faithfulls, instead of helping to grow the company after taking over from the previous NPP regime.” The group is convinced that making the report public is very necessary in order to help correct the wrong impressions being created in the minds of Ghanaians that MMT buses are missing.

They are calling for the dismissal of the current MD, Ing. Noble John Appiah) since he does not appear to be supportive of the vision of the ruling NDC and its ideologies. “Sufficient evidence is available to buttress our case if you require any proofs,” the group stated.

Source: Jeorge Wilson Kingson || Spy News Agency