{"id":32457,"date":"2017-02-10T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/more-than-200-cars-are-missing-says-ghana-s\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T01:27:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:27:23","slug":"more-than-200-cars-are-missing-says-ghana-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/more-than-200-cars-are-missing-says-ghana-s\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 cars are missing, says Ghana\u2019s presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Ghana\u2019s new government has set up a special task force to track down more than 200 missing vehicles that should have been handed back when President Nana Akufo-Addo took office.}<\/p>\n

Presidency spokesman Eugene Arhin told reporters yesterday that an audit of vehicles indicated that many appeared not to have been returned.<\/p>\n

He said officials could only find:<\/p>\n

– 74 of the presidency\u2019s 196 Toyota Land Cruisers<\/p>\n

– 20 out of 73 Toyota Land Cruiser Prados<\/p>\n

– 11 out of 24 Mercedes<\/p>\n

– two out of 28 Toyota Avalons<\/p>\n

– two out of six BMWs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president of the republic currently has virtually only one vehicle at his disposal,\u201d said Arhin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the vehicle which was purchased in 2007 during the Ghana at 50 celebrations. It is a BMW.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vehicles were assigned to former government officials and appointees under the previous administration of president John Dramani Mahama, whom Akufo-Addo beat in elections last December.<\/p>\n

Presidency chief of staff Akosua Frema Osei-Opare said in a statement that the retention of state assets was illegal.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersons with state properties unlawfully in their possession should endeavour to contact the task force and make arrangements to surrender (the) same with immediate effect,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate response from President Mahama\u2019s National Democratic Congress (NDC) party but the party faced a similar situation when it took power in 2008.<\/p>\n

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Source:Daily Nation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{Ghana\u2019s new government has set up a special task force to track down more than 200 missing vehicles that should have been handed back when President Nana Akufo-Addo took office.} Presidency spokesman Eugene Arhin told reporters yesterday that an audit of vehicles indicated that many appeared not to have been returned. He said officials could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32457"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32457"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}