The Chairman of the Fact Finding Committee formed by the Northern Development Authority (NDA) to investigate the dealings of then Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) and Unik Savannah, Boniface A. Gambila, has disclosed to DAILY GUIDE that the committee will soon embark on an exercise to retrieve monies from its debtors in the three northern regions.
According to him, those properties under SADA were state properties and procured with state funds. Therefore, whoever came into an agreement with SADA to procure them under any conditions should be ready to pay for them.
“State properties are not for free when they are procured for sale and a state property is not party property,” he stated.
He urged party supporters, individuals and institutions that have agreements with SADA to start making payments for any property purchased on credit from SADA before the committee embarrasses them.
Boniface A. Gambila, Chief Nabila Sulemana, Dr. Baba Niber, Vitus Ngaanuma and others have been mandated to ascertain how the items were procured and disbursed or stored, and retrieve monies from people who bought the tricycles on hire purchase.
He indicated that state property under any government can never be given out for free, saying “discrimination must stop”.
He called on the media to help the NDA to turn around the economy of the three northern regions.
About 5,000 units of tricycles and 1,000 units of motorbikes were brought to Tamale from China, out of which about 2,900 were assembled, leaving 2,100 unassembled.
The 2,900 which were assembled were given out to interested people on hire purchase for business purposes
Reports have it that majority of the tricycles were given out to supporters of the NDC and some parliamentary candidates to campaign in 2016 but to date none has paid for the tricycles.
When DAILY GUIDE toured the office of the NDA, it was revealed that over 2,100 unassembled tricycles had been left in the sun for over three years.
FROM Eric Kombat, Tamale