Confusion Over Alleged NLA Ghc7,000 Booze Gift To CID Boss

An outbreak of confusion is beginning to punctuate the 50th birthday celebration of the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police, after a memo purporting that she had received a gift wrap of booze worth ghc7,000 from the National Lotteries Authority (NLA), hit the internet. COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah has denied receiving the gift of drinks while the NLA is also claiming that it does not remember donating the drinks. However, a 14th August, 2019 memo from the NLA’s Acting General Manager in charge of Security and Special Projects, to its General Secretary is circulating as testimony that indeed the donation had been made. The single paper trail is knocking heads together and also leaving in its wake, suspicion that somebody at the NLA may have peddled the name of the CID boss to cream a cool ghc7, 000 for their self. The August 14, 2019 memo was entitled – “Donation to Director General, CID.” It reads; “respectfully sir, the Management of the National Lotteries Authority has been invited to the 50th birthday celebration of the Director Geneal of the Criminal Investigations Department. “Pursuant to the above, I seek your approval for an amount of ghc7,000 to purchase assorted drinks and other gifts to support the birthday celebrations on behalf of the Authority. “Humbly submitted Sir.” The paper trail shows that the memo was minuted on in the wording, “please pay ghc7,000,” and was signed on 19th August 2019 by the NLA’s Director General, Kofi Osei Ameyaw. However, Acting General Manager, Security and Special Projects, Trinita Kojo Nyarko, has said he does not remember ever authoring any such memo and that he could only probably address the issue if he sees the memo in person. This is in spite of the fact that the memo clearly shows that it was originated from Security and Special Projects Department of the NLA which he heads. The memo also bears his signature to boot. On her part, COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah, has said the NLA could not have supplied any such quantity of drinks to her birthday because she celebrated the occasion with a church service that the NLA was not invited to.