A group of National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters in the Ashanti Region has filed a petition with the police, urging them to investigate an alleged looting at the State Transport Corporation (STC) terminals in Oforikrom and Adum.
The group claims they were tipped off by an informant about missing equipment at the terminals. Acting on this information, they involved the police and visited the premises to verify the report.
Upon inspection, they alleged that several essential items, including power plants, car tires, and other equipment, were unaccounted for.
Alhaji Nje, the leader of the group and a member of the Ashanti Regional Inter-Party and Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Committee, stated that when they questioned the terminal administrator about the missing power plant, he claimed it had been sent for repairs.
However, an engineer at the Oforikrom terminal contradicted this, stating that someone had earlier presented a receipt indicating that the plant had been sold.
Alhaji Nje further explained that the alleged looting case at the Oforikrom STC terminal has been reported to the Oforikrom Police Station for investigation, while the case at the Adum terminal is being handled by the Adum Divisional Police.
Alhaji also mentioned that as they await feedback from the police, some background checks and information gathering will be done before being forwarded to the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team for further action.
“I had information earlier yesterday with pictures of some tyres and machines at the yard that they believe some of them are no more at the yard. So I moved in with some of the constituency executives of Oforikrom and then the task force leadership, but before we got there, we informed the police that this was the information that we had gotten from an informant.
“There is a plant there, and when we got there, the plant was not there, and they have burnt three brand new buses. It is very shocking, and so we told the police to investigate this, and we are also compiling our report to present it to the Operation Recover All Loot team.”
