1. The US government's decision to finally deny Ghana government the second tranche of the MCC fund of $198m is as a result of the wanton greed of one family, the president's family

2. Shortly after the PDS deal was signed by Philip Ayensu on one side, PDS and Ken Ofori-Atta on the other side, for government, the latter immediately kicked into motion his ultimate agenda to take over ownership of shares expected to be held in custody for him by the PDS

3. Unfortunately, one or two strong voices in PDS resisted this greed from Ken and called off his bluff by denying his request

4. Immediately, Ken sensed danger of losing in this scam he and his family visited on Ghanaians to have full control of the national asset, ECG, he begun to threaten PDS

i) With threats of exposing Philip Ayensu and PDS over fraud, etc, if he is not allowed to redistribute the shares of PDS

5. Having failed to persuade Philip Ayensu behind closed doors, Ken decided to try publicly in an attempt to drive fear into the men. He therefore authored that letter on March 27, appointing Lawyer Ampaw to oversee the recomposition of the shareholding structure of PDS

THAT WAS WHAT TRIGGERED THE RIPPLING EFFECTS WE ARE WITNESSING TODAY

6. Even after issuing that letter which exposed Ken's sinister motive and intent, Philip and co still refused to play ball, unperturbed and this shocked Ken, the president and Gabby, in fact the entire family.

7. Then came further exposes through Ken's orchestrations that some documents provided by PDS were fake. That was when we were hearing terms like conditions precedence vrs conditions subsequent. In fact, this was a ploy by both PDS and government to dupe Ghanaians but as God will have it, Ken and his crew decided to now 'blackmail' Philip with something they all did together in the dark.

8. This was what called for the US government's request for investigations, etc, and we all saw the FTI which indicted Ghana's Veep, not only as an accessory but complicit in the scam being visited on innocent Ghanaians in broad day. As usual he was such a dispensable tool, used to alter the contract on behalf of the president and that was all. Dont forget, it was Ken Ofori-Atta who brought Bawumia back to Ghana and landed him the job at BoG under Kufour so Bawumia always owes his allegiance to them

9. During this process, it is believed Philip and his men [PDS] also took one bold step to open up to the MCC/US government about the actual reason Ken Ofori-Atta and Akufo-Addo together with Gabby were acting the way they were acting. Philip opened up about the family interest {greed} and agenda to axe him out eventually by first taking over the greater shares in PDS and his resistance. Well, at this point the US can only take one side, and if a government can be this corrupt and wicked, then... your guess is as good as mine

10. Unknown to the Ghana government that Philip had opened up to the US government, they also decided to bring Philip [PDS] to his knees by terminating the contract with him, which they communicated to the US government alas

11. To their utmost surprise, and shock, the US government is now asking them to reinstate PDS before the compact can proceed. This is because they have uncovered how the Ghanaian government's corrupt practices involved the president, his finance minister and other family members.

12. In fact, Philip was or had already agreed on some behind the scene terms with the US government, to also 'show' Ken and his president something small; barber powers

13. The US government, therefore, knew the devilish intention behind Ken Ofori-Atta's letter asking for time and seeking permission to do restrictive tendering which was aimed at now having absolute control by setting up a so-called Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that will compromise the process and allow their direct relations to execute this deal, vehemently rejected that.

14. The greed of one family, a gang of corporate fraudsters voted into power by citizens who were unfortunately deceived.

15. Is this the competence we voted for, it has all been about corruption since the inception of this government headed by the chief thief himself.

16. Certainly, crime has been committed, we need to identify the culprits and deal with them according to law, this government is hanging itself

17. Ghana, rest assured the US government will definitely find a way to retrieve the over $309m sunk into our country which has obviously gone down the drain

EBENEZER...

~ Elikem Kotoko [ek]