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Ghana’s Muslim Former Minister Yusif Issah Wants Fellow Muslim Minister Muntaka Probed
7 June 2009
Former minister of Sports, Mallam Yusif Issah, who was prosecuted during the regime of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for wilfully causing financial loss to the state, has asked the President, His Excellency John Evans Atta Mills to set up a committee to investigate allegations against the Minister of Sports, Hon. Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak for allegedly squandering Ghana's money. According to him, he would be grateful if the President and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) delve into the said allegations against the Sports Minister to bring out the truth. He said he would also be glad if the government asks him (Mallam Issah) to be part of the committee to probe into the matter, since he had been a victim himself. Speaking on Angel FM's sports programme on Thursday, the former Minister said he would reveal many deals in the Sport Ministry should he be a member of the committee which he has urged President Mills to set up. He said there were people in the Sports Ministry who always try to work against Ministers who assume office at the Sports both physically and spiritually, but reiterated that the Sports Minister should be prosecuted if he was found guilty of the allegations. Mallam Issah, a member of the People's National Convention (PNC), who was the first Sports Minister to be appointed by former President John Agyekum Kufuor under the NPP government, was accused of stealing an amount of $46,000 which was meant to be the winning bonus for the players of the Black Stars in a World Cup 2002 qualifying match in Khartoum, Sudan. Even though the Black Stars lost the said game by a lone goal to their Sudanese counterparts, the former Minister went to jail after failing to account for the said amount, until he was given amnesty by former President Kufuor, after serving some years in prison. Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, the Minister of Youth and Sports has been severally accused for using public funds worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to purchase items such as diapers, oil and meat among others. It was also alleged that the Minister travelled with his girl friend and slept in a luxurious hotel in La Cote d'Ivoire, when the local Black stars went to the grand finale of the Championship of African Nations (CHAN) tournament, and also allocated a VW Passat to his wife among other numerous allegations levelled against him by a former accountant of the Youth and Sports Ministry. Meanwhile, constituents of the Asawase constituency in Kumasi, where Hon. Muntaka is representing them in Parliament, have expressed dismay over the allegations levelled against their Member of Parliament (MP). According to them, if the allegations levelled against the MP turns out to be true, then the Minister had not only disappointed the constituency and Ghanaians, but the Muslim community as a whole. Others also said he should be made to face the necessary punishment if he is found guilty, and some were of the view that if he is used as a scapegoat, then the other Ministers who take up appointments would be "very careful", since it is the second time running that a Minister at the Youth and Sports Ministry had fallen foul.
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