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Quality Grain Scam. . . Rawlings, Four Others to Answer - Attorney General
Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
April 26, 2001
Posted to the web April 27, 2001
Isaac Homeku & Othello Garblah
Accra
Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, his vice Prof. John Atta-Mills together
with three ranking former members of the previous National Democratic
Congress (NDC) government should be held responsible for the quality grain
scandal.
The others are former Finance Minister, Kwame Peprah, former Agriculture
Minister, Ibrahim Adam and the former Chief of Staff at the Office of the
President, Nana Ato Dadzie.
They are subjects of a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) probe to ascertain the
role they played in the release and disbursement of the over $20million
given out as loans to Mrs. Renee Woodward, a.k.a. J.R Cotton, to grow rice
for Ghanaians, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Nana Akufo-Addo has
disclosed.
This revelation was made at a news conference addressed by Nana Addo and
Major (Rtd) Courage Quashigah, Minister of Food and Agriculture, Wednesday
this week.
Flt. Lt Rawlings and Prof. Mills were cited as originators and the main
backers of the whole sham. Both had a personal interest at ensuring the
success of the project.
Mr. Kwame Peprah, former Minister of Finance, according to Nana Akufo-Addo
is being investigated by the SFO for approving and executing loans to
Quality Grain Limited, a company that lacked the capability and expertise to
grow rice on the large scale without parliamentary approval.
Alhaji Ibrahim Adam, former Minister of Agriculture, is also to answer for
introducing J.R Cotton to the Ministry of Agriculture as an investor with
the potential of growing rice on a large scale, which proved to be false.
He is also being investigated for his role in securing government guaranteed
loans for the Quality Grains Company Limited.
Dr. Samuel Dapaah, Chief Director of the Ministry of Agriculture is also a
focus of the SFO probe. He is said to have assisted Quality Grain to get its
loan guaranteed by government.
Ditto Dr. Yankey, Solicitor at the Ministry of Finance. The SFO is
investigating his role in the preparation and execution of agreements and
transference of the loans into the personal account of Miss.
Cotton, all without parliamentary approval.
The then Acting Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, Nana Ato
Dadzie, according to Nana Akufo-Addo will also face similar questions for
his role in guaranteeing government loans for the company.
Meanwhile the office of the Attorney General is initiating legal action to
retrieve part of the loan guaranteed by Government to Quality Grains Company
Limited as well as take over the whole project.

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