‘I didn’t handle 2016 campaign funds’-Eastern Regional NDC Secretary

The Eastern Regional Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mark Oliver Kevor has refuted the findings of the Professor Kwesi Botchwey Committee against him and other regional executives of the party.

According to him, it is not true that he pocketed funds and logistics meant for the party’s regional campaign for the 2016 General Elections.

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) formed a 13 member committee chaired by former Finance Minister Professor Kwesi Botchwey to investigate why the party lost the 2016 elections.

Although the committee is yet to official present its findings to the party, copies of the report have been leaked to the media.

The report indicted party functionaries both national and regional level including the former president Mr. John Dramani Mahama as the cause of the party’s defeat during the elections.

It accuses the Eastern Regional executives of the party of diverting campaign funds and logistics and also creating divisions among the party at the grassroots level.

But reacting to the findings of the Committee on Oman FM’s National Agenda on Tuesday, Mark Oliver Kevor, insisted that the findings of the committee are baseless.

He accused the members of the committee for deliberately cooking up the report just to tarnish his hard won reputation.

According to him, per the 2016 campaign structure of the party, regional executives were not allowed to handle funds and logistics.

He said what the party did was appointing regional campaign coordinators and they were in charge of party funds and wondered how he and other executives could divert campaign funds.

“Let me tell you that if the author of the report knows how the campaign structure was in 2016, he wouldn’t write about executives handling campaign funds. We did handle campaign.

“The party appointed campaign coordinators in all that regions and they were tasked to raise funds for the regional campaigns. So regional executives were not involved.”

Story By: Michael Creg Afful

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