Sir John's replacement, three representatives have not announced their resources
The then Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, on Monday August 25, 2020, swore John Allotey into office as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Forestry Commission.
That office accompanies various obligations remembering a protected interest for its tenant to pronounce their resources and liabilities.
In any case, The Fourth Estate has tracked down that Mr Allotey, has not satisfied that legitimate commitment.
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Ranger service Commission CEO, John Allotey Credit: Environmental Guide
Mr. Allotey supplanted the late Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie as the Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission.
Mr Afriyie, prevalently known as Sir John, kicked the bucket on July 1, 2020. After two months, his agent was raised to the place of CEO on August 25, 2020.
Unintentionally, Mr Allotey co-saw Sir John's dubious will where he gifted plots of land in the Achimota Forest and the Sakumono Ramsar site and in excess of 70 different properties to his youngsters and different family members.
The Fourth Estate uncovered that Sir John didn't proclaim his resources, and his replacement and his delegates seem to have followed him.
At the point when Mr Allotey accepted office in 2017, Ghana's resource announcement regulations — Article 286 and Act 550 — expected that he pronounces every one of his resources and liabilities in six months or less.
He was to proclaim all resources connecting with the accompanying:
(a)lands, houses and structures;
(b) ranches;
(c) concessions;
(d) trust or family property in regard of which the official has advantageous interest;
(e) vehicles, plant and apparatus, fishing boats, fishing vessels, producing plants;
(f) financial matters;
(g) protections and bank adjusts;
(h) bonds and depository bills;
(I) adornments of the worth of ¢5 million [now ¢500] or above; objects of specialty of the worth of ¢5 million or above;
(j) life and other insurance contracts;
(k) such different properties as are determined on the announcement structure.
Notwithstanding, through a right to data (RTI) solicitation to the Audit Service, The Fourth Estate has viewed that as very much like his late chief, Mr Allotey neglected to comply to the law as of May 22, 2017.
He isn't the one to focus on.
None of his three agents - Martha Kwayie Manu, Nyadia Sulemana Nelson and Musah Iddrisu (Musah Superior) - have agreed with the law.
Interestingly since its foundation in 1999, the Forestry Commission has three vice president chiefs on its finance.
The commission is liable for the guideline of usage of timberland and untamed life assets.
This places the threesome responsible for the country's 266 woodland and game stores and six Ramsar destinations.
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John Allotey
At the point when The Fourth Estate reached Mr Allotey, he said he had before announced his resource yet couldn't recollect the specific date.
He, be that as it may, said he had as of late picked the structure and would satisfy the protected commitment.
Martha Kwayie Manu
Martha Kwayie Manu, the prompt past District Chief Executive (DCE) of Juaboso in the Western North Region, was designated vice president leader of the Forestry Commission in April 2021.
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Martha K. Manu was named in 2021 Credit: Forestry Commission
She didn't answer calls, messages and WhatsApp messages sent on June 13, 2022, until June 20, 2022 when she sent a reaction which read:
"They [Audit Service] ought to check their records well. I have done this a long time back, so they ought to check or I need to do it yearly?"
At the point when The Fourth Estate found out if she had the receipt of the announcement and whether she did it in Accra or in the Western North Region, she didn't answer.
Musah Iddrisu, nom de plume Musah Superior
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In November 2021, Mr Musah Iddrisu took to virtual entertainment to report his arrangement as a vice president leader of the commission. Before that arrangement, he had burned through four years in office as the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tamale.
There was no hint of him pronouncing his resources there. He didn't answer calls and message and WhatsApp messages on June 13 and June 14, 2022.
Mr Iddrisu is presently challenging for the NPP's General Secretary position.
Nyadia Sulemana Nelson
Nyadia Sulemana Nelson - Deputy Chief Executive Officer - Ghana Forestry Commission | LinkedIn
He was additionally delegated in April 2021. He didn't answer calls, message and WhatsApp messages sent on June 13, 2022.
Strolling the discussion
In spite of the fact that President Nana Akufo-Addo has in the past promoted his representatives' adherence to the resource announcement regulation, some of them didn't walk his discussion.
While 27 priests and agent clergymen in his first and second term never proclaimed their resources, 92 others including Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the money serve, Ken Ofori-Atta; parliamentary undertakings serve, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, and previous senior clergyman, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, didn't completely conform to the law.
Obscure regulation
Against debasement crusaders have throughout the long term condemned Ghana's resource statement regulation for lacking straightforwardness.
They need resources and liabilities public office holders proclaim to be confirmed and distributed when they come to office and when they leave. Nonetheless, public office holders went against such requests, refering to protection concerns.
In different popular governments, resources proclaimed are distributed. President Barack Obama, for example, revealed a pay of $5.5 million of every 2009 on his expense forms, the greater part of it from his books, "Dreams from My Father" and "Dauntlessness of Hope".
As per White House monetary exposure shapes, the Obama family announced resources of $7.7 million, excluding the family home in Chicago. In any case, they incorporated the family canine, Bo, which was esteemed at $1,600, and recorded under "gifts, repayments and travel costs."
In Ghana, hostile to debasement advocates, including OccupyGhana need the a half year beauty period in Act 550 eliminated from another Conduct of Public Officers Bill, which is before the bureau.
It said the a half year gives a potential open door for public office holders who don't proclaim their resources promptly they expect office to gain assets.
"This is conceivable on the grounds that albeit the Constitution completely requests that people being selected to public office 'will' pronounce their resources 'prior to getting to work.' In 1998, government officials from every one of the ideological groups in Parliament, schemed to penetrate this sacred arrangement by passing a regulation (Act 550) that permits the announcement to be documented as long as a half year 'subsequent to' getting down to business," OccupyGhana said in a press explanation in May 2022
It went on: "The impact of this tragedy is that for over twenty years, when individuals accept public office without first pronouncing resources and liabilities, they either don't announce by any means, or now and again participate in 'assumptive statements' by proclaiming what they don't have, in the assumption that they may, while in office, obtain the resources or make hoax installments in implied fulfillment of joke obligations proclaimed."
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