A Director of?Finance of the?National Youth?Authority Aminu Abdulai?is accusing Acting National?Coordinator for the?National Youth Authority?Ras Mubarak of corruption.
He claimed he refused?to carry out Ras Mubarak?s?orders to misappropriate public funds of?GH?215,100.00 out of?GH?450,000.00 meant for?the Youth Leadership &?Skill Training Institutes?(YLSTIs).
He said due to his?refusal to carry out the?orders, Ras Mubarak broke?into his office in Accra and?sealed the place with locks?on Friday, October 17.
Narrating his ordeal,?the Director of Finance said?the Youth Coordinator has?written to the Controller?and Accountant General to??replace me to pave way?for him to execute his diabolic?plan,? adding ?he?then forged documents to?Bank of Ghana (BoG) to?execute his diabolic plan?and desperately used two?category ?A? signatories?instead of one category ?A??(which is his) and category??B? (which is mine) but it?was detected and?stopped.?
He claimed Ras?Mubarak also ?collaborated?with one of my subordinates, took her sample signature?to Bank of Ghana so?as to change my signature just to get a category ?B??signatory but Bank of?Ghana referred him to controller,??adding that the?youth coordinator took the?signature to Controller &?Accountant General but?Controller detected it too?and refused to process it.
?All these happened?while I was away in?Kumasi on a UNFPA sponsored adolescents sexual?reproduction health program?with other directors (Programs, ICT , Corporate?Affairs, Education & Training)?of ?National Youth?Authority,? Aminu Abdulai?said.
He said ?National?Youth Authority received?GH?690,000.00 on 20th?August, 2014 from MOFEP?and Ras Mubarak has no?excuse wanting to misappropriate?GH?450,000.00?meant for deprived youth.?
He said that after?depositing the?GH?450,000.00 cheque?from the MOYS into NYA?s?account he proceeded to?prepared a bank transfer?advice transferring all?amount to the institutes so?as to meet the Minister?s objective of sustaining the?academic work of the?deprived youth.
?Since the grant was for?feeding, I made the distribution?to the nine boarding?institutes even though the?institutes are eleven (11) in?totals. However, he disagreed?with the transfer of?all the amount to the Principals,??he claimed.
He said Ras Mubarak?then ordered him to transfer?only GH?234,900.00 to?the schools leaving?GH?215,100.00 for him to?pay for his trip to China?and to meet other office?expenditures.
?I offered him two set?of advice: To obtain a?counter warrant from the?MOYS to change the distribution?as he was indicating;?or sign a disclaimer accepting full responsibility?for any audit adverse?findings for the misappropriation?of the?GH?450,000.00 and he?chose the first option.?
Aminu Abdulai said?after failing to secure the?counter warrant, Ras?Mubarak resorted to?threats and finally broke?into my office.?
He said the matter has?been reported to the?Kaneshie Police in Accra,?saying ?I have not been?able to access my office?since 17th October, 2014. Ras Mubarak is currently?in China and the Police are?waiting for his return.?
?The activities of the National Youth Authority have virtually come to halt.I was to sign for GH?400,000.00 from Futures Group (David ?Head of Futures Team,0244085031) for another Adolescents Sexual Reproductive Health Program for the last quarter of this year but we have lost it because of this issue. Our processes on the GIFMIS platform has also come to halt and?our creditors are ?crying? while Mr. Ras Mubarak is cooling off in China unofficially.?
