Nana Yaa Jantuah slams Col. Damoah says he is behaving like a wounded lion

The General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP),  Nana Yaa Jantuah has slammed the Commissioner of Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Col. Kwadwo Damoah, (RTD) following his public outburst over the Labianca corruption scandal.

Speaking on TV3 NewDay on Thursday, August 25, she said the outburst was unwarranted adding that he was behaving like a wounded lion.

Ms Jantuah was of the view, instead of the outburst, the colonel should have addressed the issues raised by the report when he had the opportunity to meet the press and not spoke the way he did.

“The man is behaving like a wounded lion who is gasping for his life. He is behaving like a General who has gone to the war front and has seen his troops are not making it so he has to put on a certain posture then now he has apportion blames and say that OSP has a problem because somebody was not transferred blab la… these are trivial matters”.

Ms Jantuah also described the colonel’s posture during his outburst as one of entitlement and questioned why?

“He also behaved as if he is entitled. When I watched him I said this man, is he a party financier or something because the way he carried himself and there is an issue at hand, he did not address the issue whether he was wrong, it was right or whatever and so the way he carried himself I was like wow,  this sense of entitlement is huge because if an issue has comes up and you are addressing the media you need to address the issue”.

Col Damoah on OSP’s Labianca corruption scandal

 Col. Kwadwo Damoah, (RTD while addressing senior Customs officers at a retreat in Kumasi on Wednesday, August 10, called out the Special Prosecutor for implicating him in an alleged corruption scandal involving the Labianca Company, a frozen foods importer and distributor in the country.

The custom boss was said to have approved a reduction of 5%-10% in a benchmark value issued by Mr Adu Kyei , a Deputy Commissioner for Customs on the said products imported by the company under the guise of customs advance rulings without cause to due processes.

The transaction resulted in a whopping One Million Seventy-Four Thousand cedis Six Hundred and Twenty-Seven cedis Fifteen pesewas (GHC1, 074,627.15) financial short fall to the state.

Speaking on the development, Col Damoah described the report as hollow, called the OPS a small boy adding that any attempt to destroy him will not be easy for him.

Ms Jantuah reacting to the statement said “The age of the OSP does not matter, if you are given a responsibility it is the office that determines and defines who you are and so the fact that he is a small boy is neither here nor there”.

Source: GhanaPlus.com