Deputy Minister of Information’s signature forged

• Posted on April 20, 2014
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
• Comment

The Ministry of Information and Media Relations is latest to have fallen victim to the act of forgery of signature of public officials.

Police are currently investigating circumstances leading to the alleged forgery of the Energy Minister’s signature by Gondwana Oil Corporation, a Canadian oil exploration firm to lay claim over a piece of oil rich area, offshore, South of the Cape Three Points in the Western Region.

Suspect, Charles Andoh who was picked up by the police last Thursday, is reported to have confessed to committing the act.

Speaking on Newsfile on Joy FM Saturday, Deputy Information Minister Murtala Mohammed disclosed that the security agencies are investigating a similar incident involving his ministry.

“I was on a programme sometime last two weeks when I got a call from my secretary that a company called the Ministry of Information to find out whether we have actually written a letter recommending a particular group to some investors,” he said.

The Deputy Minister said he found the development bizarre since such letters are usually authored by the substantive Minister, Mahama Ayariga, unless the minister instructs him to do so on his behalf.

“I then called [the company] that they should fax a copy of the letter because they said that I signed the letter. When they sent the letter we realised that the signature was completely different from my signature,” Murtala told Samson Lardy Anyenini, host of the programme.

“As I talk to you the security agencies are on that matter…and it is more serious when you are dealing with a company that is foreign” in the case of Gondwana Energy.

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