Dr. K.K. Sarpong: I Have Not Misappropriated GNPC’s US$12Million

The Immediate-past Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Dr. K.K. Sarpong, has responded to alleged claims by his successor, Ag. CEO, Opoku Ahwenee Danquah, that he (Dr. Sarpong) misappropriated US$ 12 million of the Corporation’s money.

In response to a WhatsUp News report of the alleged claim by Mr. Danquah as captured in a letter from concerned workers of the GNPC to the Board of the Corporation, Dr. Sarpong dismisses the claim as nonsense.

According to him, “I do not know what he is talking about,” after confirming on phone with WhatsUp News that indeed the allegation has come to his attention but that he has refused to dignify it with any reply.

However, Dr. Sarpong also confirms another issue relating to some US$ 100 million he left but has since disappeared as the concerned staff of GNPC alleged in their petition to the corporation’s Board Chairman Freddy Blay.

WhatsUp News had recently published a story based on a letter written by a group of concerned staff of the GN PC complaining about the new CEO’s alleged improper conduct in office.

As part of vandalizing standard procedures at The GNPC, Opoku Ahwenee Danquah is said to have scuttled some deployments and contracts under Dr. K.K. Sarpong and then gone on to allege that the former CEO had misappropriated US$ 12 million at a staff meeting.

While the letter from the staff had not supported the claim, it also pointed out Ahwenee Danquah had rather not properly accounted for some US$100million of the Corporation’s money.

“…during the same onboarding week, the financial accounts he presented to staff all turned out to be false. For instance, while he falsely accused his predecessor to have misappropriated the Corporation’s Fund of about 12 million USD, he smartly concealed the 100 million USD funds the Corporation had received from Jubilee Holding Lifting in his financial report,” the letter from the concerned staff partly read.

Following Whatsup News’ publication of the story, Dr. K. K. Sarpong reached out to Whatsup News complaining that the claim against him was untrue but that he had indeed left US$100million at the GNPC.

Meanwhile, Danquah, a member of President Akufo-Addo’s family, has been accused of improper and questionable conduct, including writing to the Public Procurement Authority to scuttle sole-sourced contracts under K.K. Sarpong.