The smiling ‘Demolition Man’ McDan GRABS Multi-Million Dollar Airport Contract -While Ordering destruction of Archer’s US$10 million Business

Daniel McKorley aka “McDan, The man who just said “Yes I am with them. I am NPP” is smiling all the way to the bank as Government hands over Ghana’s Terminal 1, built with tax payers money for his private logistics business.

Ironically, McDAN, appointed by the President as the Chairman of the Ghana Trade Fair Company (GTFC) has endorsed the destruction of a US$10 million ultra-modern printing factory of Universal Labels & Packaging Compnay and Colour Planet Ltd. owned by Raymond Archer without a genuine excuse.

Two days after levelling the printing operations of Raymond Archer, Whatsup News has intercepted a Parliamentary Order Paper which shows how the Akufo Addo administration has virtually handed over the entire Terminal 1 to McDan to use as a “Logistics operations centre” for 15 years.

The Order Paper for today, February 19, 2020 reads: “The GACL (Ghana Airport Company Limited) has rented out the ground floor of Terminal 1 to McDan Aviation for use as a Logistics Operations Centre for a period of fifteen years from January 2019.”

The facility will allow McDan Aviation to provide “logistics and handling services to the US Military through Terminal 1”. Whatsup News has gathered from reliable sources that the government is not aware of the full details of this agreement with the Americans.

McDan is reportedly enjoying this free rein purportedly because of the hatchet jobs he did for the NPP run up to the 2016 elections. His security company AFWEST is responsible for the training of NPP vigilantes in the run up to the elections using South African mercenaries.

Critics have said that the wanton destruction of Universal Labels & Packaging Co and Colour Planet, is part of the hatchet job, particularly the manner in which the operation was carried out.

On Sunday February 16, 2020, the demolition exercise at the order of both McDan and Dr. Agnes Adu, the CEO is GTFC, was carried out in the dead of the night by a bulldozer-wielding troops of heavily armed members of the security agencies and the military has been condemned as politically motivated.

The raid was conducted despite a pending injunction appeal filed by Raymond Archer and other tenants preventing the GTFC authorities from carrying out their forced eviction.

Raymond Archer who is the founder of the Enquirer was a strong critic of the NPP administration under John Agyekum Kuffour between 2000 and 2008. He is thus essentially viewed as naturally leaning towards the arch-rivals of the NPP-the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The NDC issued a statement today stating that they believed Raymond Archer was targeted by McDan and Agnes Adu because of his perceived political orientation. However, Mr. Archer has said he is a businessman and not a politician.

Aside his philanthropy and entrepreneurial mentorship programmes, McDan has been in the news for having sneaked in South African “mercenaries” to train militias of the NPP in combat skills.

Mid 2016, the alleged mercenaries were busted by security agencies and whisked back to South Africa.

McDan has also reportedly supported the NDC financially.

 Even though now he has categorically stated that he is a member of the NPP, some sceptical members of the governing NPP like Kennedy Agyapong (the Assin Central MP for the NPP) believes he is an opportunist.

“I am with them, I am a member of NPP…I got my first contract under Akuffo Addo. I built my business organically, I didn’t run after government business,” McDan told Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana in a live interview on Tuesday.